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SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack Download

August 9, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Utility
Microsoft has SQL Server Health monitoring tool, which I have noticed that many of us do not give it a try. Microsoft has released Monitoring management pack download recently and it does plenty of the task, which normally one would like to do. Instead of going for third party tool,…
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SQL SERVER – Introduction to Best Practices Analyzer – Quick Tutorial

July 1, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, SQL Utility
I previously wrote about SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer earlier and since then I have received many emails requesting to explain how it works. I assume that you can download and install the tool successfully. Once done just follow the steps listed…
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SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – Performance Counters Gathering using Powershell

May 30, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL
Powershell, SQL Utility

Laerte Junior has previously helped me personally to resolve the issue with Powershell installation on my computer. He did an awesome job to help. He has sent this another wonderful article regarding performance counter for readers of this blog. I really liked it and I expect all of you who are Powershell geeks, you will like the same as well.

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SQL SERVER – Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database – Idera virtual database

April 6, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL
Database, Idera, SQL Backup, SQL Data Storage, SQL Restore, SQL Server, SQL Utility

I recently downloaded Idera’s SQL virtual database, and tested it. There are a few things about this tool which caught my attention. Let us learn about Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database.

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SQL SERVER – Enable Identity Insert – Import Expert Wizard

April 4, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Identity, SQL Server, SQL Utility

I recently got an email from an old friend who told me that when he tries to execute the SSIS package, it fails because of some identity error. After a few series of debugging and opening his package, we finally figured out that he has the following problem. Let’s learn how to Enable Identity Insert – Import Expert Wizard.

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SQL SERVER – World Shape files Download and Upload to Database – Spatial Database

March 30, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Spatial Database, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Spatial, SQL Utility

During my recent, training I was asked by a student if I know a place where he can download spatial files for all the countries around the world, as well as if there is a way to upload shape files to a database. Here is a quick tutorial for it.

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SQL SERVER – Generate Report for Index Physical Statistics – SSMS

March 26, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Utility
Few days ago, I wrote about SQL SERVER – Out of the Box – Activity and Performance Reports from SSSMS (Link). A user asked me a question regarding if we can use similar reports to get the detail about Indexes. Yes, it is possible to do the same. There are…
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