Many companies are considering or have already implemented consolidation of computing resources, including Microsoft SQL Server instances and databases, in their organization. A consolidation effort is a complex task that requires information, a detailed plan and timeline for success, and a strategy for administering the consolidated environment. This white paper walks through the journey of [...]
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SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008
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SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server
Posted in Best Practices, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Disk partition alignment is a powerful tool for improving SQL Server performance. Configuring optimal disk performance is often viewed as much art as science. A best practice that is essential yet often overlooked is disk partition alignment. Windows Server 2008 attempts to align new partitions out-of-the-box, yet disk partition alignment remains a relevant technology for [...]
SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged SharePoint on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here is quick list of the tools which are available for SQL Server and Sharepoint. These are recently updated resources from Microsoft.
External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
This solution allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoito deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create [...]
SQLAuthority News – Data Compression Strategy Capacity Planning and Best Practices
Posted in Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Data Storage, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged Compression on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from the space savings, data compression provides another benefit: Because compressed data is stored in fewer pages, queries need to read fewer pages from the disk, thereby improving the [...]
SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, SQLServer, T SQL, Technology on October 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Change data capture (CDC) is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 designed to capture insert, update, merge, and delete activities applied to SQL Server tables and to avail those changes in an easy-to-understand format.
Conventionally, detecting changes in a source database to transfer these changes to a data warehouse required any of the following:
Special [...]
SQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Integration Services Configurations
Posted in Business Intelligence, SQL White Papers, tagged SSIS on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This article explains what SQL Server Integration Services configurations are used for, why you should use Integration Services configurations, and what options you have for leveraging configurations. It will also make some simple recommendations that are based on my experiences of building Integration Services packages in a real-world environment. An understanding of the terms “package”, [...]
SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With SQL Server Audit, SQL Server 2008 introduces an important new feature that provides a true auditing solution for enterprise customers. While SQL Trace can be used to satisfy many auditing needs, SQL Server Audit offers a number of attractive advantages that may help DBAs more easily achieve their goals such as meeting regulatory compliance [...]
SQLAuthority News – Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged PHP on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is a Microsoft-supported extension of PHP 5 that provides data access to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The extension provides a procedural interface for accessing data in all editions of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP API provides [...]
SQLAuthority News – Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Security, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged SQL Server Encryption on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With the introduction of transparent data encryption (TDE) in SQL Server 2008, users now have the choice between cell-level encryption as in SQL Server 2005, full database-level encryption by using TDE, or the file-level encryption options provided by Windows. TDE is the optimal choice for bulk encryption to meet regulatory compliance or corporate data security standards. [...]
SQLAuthority News – FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008
Posted in SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Documentation, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL White Papers, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology, tagged Filestream on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are various technologies to do this and the choice of technology often depends on the nature of the data being stored – structured, semistructured, or unstructured:
Structured data is data that can be easily stored in a relational schema, such as that representing sales data for a company. This can be stored in a database [...]
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Pinalkumar Dave is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a Mentor for Solid Quality India. He has written over 1100 articles on the subject on his blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com. He is a dynamic and proficient Principal Database Architect, Corporate Trainer and Project Manager, who specializes in SQL Server Programming and has 7 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of certifications, including MCDBA and MCAD (.NET). He was awarded Regional Mentor for PASS Asia.
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