Introduction An organization can take several precautions to help secure a database, such as designing a secure system, encrypting confidential assets, and building a firewall around the database servers. However, in a scenario where the physical media (such as disk drives or backup tapes) are stolen...

Are you running SQL 2008 for your SAP instance? If so, are you aware of trace flag 1117? There are a couple of best practices that are important to keep your SAP instance running well on SQL Server. The first is to ensure that proportional fill is working correctly. A key best practice of proportional...