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SQL Server 2005 and Disk drive allocation unit size to 64K - any benefit or performance?
28 April 08 04:28 PM | ssqa.net | 1 comment(s)

You may be aware that or seen within your Database platform about slower disk performance than expect having multiple disks in Windows Server 2003 environment when you use a hardware-based redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or a software-based...

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TSQL to change collation of database, whats new in SQL 2008 then?
12 March 08 08:10 AM | ssqa.net | 1 comment(s)

How can you change collation of a database? How do you check the existing collation setup on a database & tables? By using the below TSQL: --For database select databasepropertyex(db_name(),'collation') as collation_name go --Tables select column_name...

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SQL Server 2008 - Declarative Management Framework (DMF) concepts - SQLBits presentation
03 March 08 06:57 AM | ssqa.net | 1 comment(s)

01st March 2008, Saturday @ Aston Lakeside Conference center, Birmingham - UK. It was a good turnout to my session this morning at 09:30 on the topic : SQL Server 2008 – Declarative Management Framework concepts & database problem solutions with policy...

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SQL Server 2005 Index Optimization Best Practices
19 February 08 07:04 AM | ssqa.net | 3 comment(s)

Do you have a maintenance window to perform database reindexing? Have you ever performed full set of re-organize and re-index process on a bigger database? Do you know there are best practices to deploy in this regard? On large database systems, with...

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