Note : Download Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – December Update by Microsoft I wanted to read some good SQL Azure related to documentation, I tried to do searching online. While searching I landed over Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. This contains lots of SQL Server related content.I downloaded it and started to explore, I [...]
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SQLAuthority News – Download Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – December Update
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Azure, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on January 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology, tagged SQL Replication on January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
During recent course of Disaster Recovery and Performance Tuning, I had very interesting conversation with students regarding Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot and Initializing a Transactional Subscription Without a Snapshot. After the discussion when we were looking at MSDN pages one thing caught my notice was the note on the top of the [...]
SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Service Pack, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It has been long time since Microsoft has released SQL Server 2005 SP3 and SQL Server 2008 SP1. It is the time when the new SPs should be released. SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Many thanks to Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral.com for this excellent initiative. I voted there, [...]
SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology on January 14, 2010 | 28 Comments »
In my recent training I was asked to how to find which is the busiest database in any SQL Server Instance. What he really meant by this is which database was doing lots of read and write operation. To find the answer to this question I decided to look into the DMV which contains all [...]
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Migration QuickStart
Posted in Best Practices, Database, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The SQL Server Migration QuickStart includes a comprehensive set of technical content including presentations, whitepapers and demos that are designed to help you get details about how to approach your customers who want to improve the return on investment from their data platforms by migrating to SQL Server from their existing Oracle or Sybase platforms. [...]
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