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SQL SERVER – Whitepaper Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL White Papers
Consolidation Using SQL Server 2008 Writer: Allan Hirt, Megahirtz LLC (allan@sqlha.com) Technical Reviewers: Lindsey Allen, Madhan Arumugam, Ben DeBow, Sung Hsueh, Rebecca Laszlo, Claude Lorenson, Prem Mehra, Mark Pohto, Sambit Samal, and Buck Woody Published: October 2009 Many companies are considering or have already implemented consolidation of computing resources, including…
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SQLAuthority News – Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
Best Practices, SQL White Papers
Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server Writers: Jimmy May, Denny Lee Contributors: Mike Ruthruff, Robert Smith, Bruce Worthington, Jeff Goldner, Mark Licata, Deborah Jones, Michael Thomassy, Michael Epprecht, Frank McBath, Joseph Sack, Matt Landers, Jason McKittrick, Linchi Shea, Juergen Thomas, Emily Wilson, John Otto, Brent Dowling Technical Reviewers:…
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SQL SERVER – Policy Based Management – Create, Evaluate and Fix Policies

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, Policy Management, Software Development, SQL Scripts
Introduction This article will cover the most spectacular feature of SQL 2008 – Policy-based management and how the configuration of SQL Server with policy-based management architecture can make a powerful difference. Policy based management is loaded with several advantages. It can help you implement various policies for reliable configuration of…
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SQL SERVER – Sharepoint Resource Available for SQL Server

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SharePoint, SQL Documentation, SQL White Papers
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…
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SQL SERVER – Removing Key Lookup – Seek Predicate – Predicate – An Interesting Observation Related to Datatypes

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Scripts
Recently, I have been working on Query Optimization project. While working on it, I found the following interesting observation. This entire concept may appear very simple, but if you are working in the area of query optimization and server tuning, you will find such useful hints. Before we start, let…
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SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure are Compiled on First Run – SP taking Longer to Run First Time

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Cache, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
During the PASS summit, one of the attendees asked me the following question. Why the Stored Procedure takes long time to run for first time? The reason for the same is because Stored Procedures are compiled when it runs first time. When I answered the same, he replied that Stored…
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SQLAuthority News – Data Compression Strategy Capacity Planning and Best Practices

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL Data Storage, SQL White Papers
Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Sanjay Mishra Contributors: Marcel van der Holst, Peter Carlin, Sunil Agarwal Technical Reviewer: Stuart Ozer, Lindsey Allen, Juergen Thomas, Thomas Kejser, Burzin Patel, Prem Mehra, Joseph Sack, Jimmy May, Cameron Gardiner, Mike Ruthruff, Glenn Berry (SQL Server…
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