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SQL SERVER – Initializing a Merge Subscription Without a Snapshot

January 15, 2010

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

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…

SQLAuthority News – Vote for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 – Vote for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2

January 15, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Service Pack

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…

SQL SERVER – Find Busiest Database

January 14, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts

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…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Migration QuickStart

January 13, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Best Practices, Database, SQL Documentation, SQL Download

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…

SQL SERVER – Fragmentation – Detect Fragmentation and Eliminate Fragmentation

January 12, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index, SQL Scripts

Q. What is Fragmentation? How to detect fragmentation and how to eliminate it? A. Storing data non-contiguously on disk is known as fragmentation. Before learning to eliminate fragmentation, you should have a clear understanding of the types of fragmentation. We can classify fragmentation into two types: Internal Fragmentation: When records…

SQL SERVER – The server network address “TCP://SQLServer:5023” can not be reached or does not exist. Check the network address name and that the ports for the local and remote endpoints are operational. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1418)

January 11, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL Mirroring, SQL Scripts

While doing SQL Mirroring, we receive the following as the most common error: The server network address “TCP://SQLServer:5023” cannot be reached or does not exist. Check the network address name and that the ports for the local and remote endpoints are operational. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 1418) The solution to…

SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure November CTP (32-bit)

January 10, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Azure, SQL Documentation, SQL Download

This release features the SQL Azure provider for Microsoft Sync Framework, a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool SQL Azure Data Sync Tool for SQL Server, all of which simplify using Sync Framework and SQL Azure together. Download Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure…

SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1

January 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

MySQL, SQL Azure, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Utility

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) 2008 is a toolkit that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from MySQL to SQL Server 2008 and SQL Azure. Download Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 Abstract courtesy : Microsoft Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

SQLAuthority News – Ahmedabad – Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group Meet – Dec 19, 2009

January 8, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

MVP

Just like every month Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group meeting was held on Dec 19, 2009, at Ahmedabad. The interactive meeting was huge success as we had wonderful audience. We had three speakers this time. Tejas Shah talked about “Write CROSS TAB Query with PIVOT”. Tejas is an…

SQLAuthority News – Webcasts – Resources for IT Managers and their Teams

January 7, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Database, SQL Scripts

Pinal Dave and Jacob Sebastian are both SQL Server MVP are doing webcasts for IT Managers and their Teams. Join us for a 4 series webcast as follows: Part 1: Infrastructure and Resource Management for Business Intelligence – Jan 7 Part 2: BI on your desktop – End to end…