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A new version of MPS Reports has been released late April, at the following link: Microsoft Product Support Reports http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CEBF3C7C-7CA5-408F-88B7-F9C79B7306C0&displaylang=en Amongst the main differences:
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A new great whitepaper to bookmark amongst your favourites: Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd672789.aspx This documentation provides step-by-step guidelines for diagnosing and troubleshooting
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If you recently found yourself in installing latest SQL Server 2005 Security Update (you did installed it right?): Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-004 – Important http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-004.mspx ..and had a look to the
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So - today I've been made this question. "I have a DB, AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS option OFF (very bad idea, anyway :-)), I rebuild my indexes every week. I do not have major changes in my database. As update statistics with fullscan is a side effect of DBCC
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There isn't much information around ( other than the readme for service packs ) on which are the best practices on installing Service Packs, Cumulative Updates, Hotfixes on SQL Server installation. ...well till today really :-) This is nothing official
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Umh, it has been a long time since my last post. I must admit, I've had brilliant holidays (relax and skiing) followed by a very bad flue, which summed up with all the XMas parties of 2008 makes 3 weeks without any post on my professional blog :-). Well,
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If you are looking for some demos to play and learn about Resource Governor, you should have a look to the SQL Server SQLOS team blog , which has posted a couple of interesting ones. 1) Anatomy of SQL Server 2008 Resource Governor CPU Demo http://blogs.technet.com/sqlos/archive/2007/12/14/part-1-anatomy-of-sql-server-2008-resource-governor-cpu-demo.aspx
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One of the most common question I've received regarding data and backup compression in SQL Server 2008 is related to achievable results in terms of performance and compressio-ratio on very large databases. I've just found some interesting data published
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This is a nice section in 2008 Books On Line which I just found and wanted to blog about - mainly for my reference so that I can quickly find it when needed ;-) I've found it whilst looking for recommendations to troubleshoot Resource Governor, but there
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The SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide is now Live and available to download. It is a 490-page white paper (hold on, do not get scared, you don't need to read it all :-)) which covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances
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I've heard this question thousands of times so I've thought to try to summarize some recommendation in this blog post. For 32 bits , things are pretty straight-forward. If they are not, I've posted some comments some time ago: \3GB \PAE and AWE - Taking
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Whilst surfing on the web last week, I've found this very nice blog from Vipul Shah, which happens to be a Microsoft colleague, which explains which are the key performance counters to monitor for your SQL Server instances and most importantly summarizes
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PPT Plex is a new tool - or more precisely - a new add on for Microsoft Power Point - which will change the way you will deliver your presentations. In short, what it allows is a different navigation experience trough your slide deck . Instead of having
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Here we are, as promised, with some rumblings on SQL Server 2008 Resource Governor . I've played a lot with the various options which this features provides, especially in preparation of my TechEd presentation last week! Did I ever mention how much I
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Just discovered whilst at TechEd that Microsoft policies for SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment are not much known as yet to the majority of the public. Therefore the PFE in me :-) wants to be sure that when
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