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On May 19th, Microsoft has updated the Support Policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running in a hardware virtualization environment , which you can find at the following link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956893/en-us The main update
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I've blogged some time ago about Microsoft recommendations for maximizing the performances of your disks subsystem for a SQL Server implementation : SQL Server - Speed up your Disks! http://blogs.technet.com/beatrice/archive/2008/06/09/sql-server-speed-up-your-disks.aspx
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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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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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For your joy (and especially for the joy of my customer :)) yesterday Microsoft has released a new Security Bulletin for SQL Server: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-004 – Important http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-004.mspx This
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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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If you are based in Manchester or nearby, there are two interesting FREE SQL Server events planned in town! 5th February: UK SQL Server Usergroup Agenda has still to be confirmed, and will be posted here: http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/events/147/Manchester-SQL-User-Group-Meeting.aspx
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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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Microsoft has just shipped the first Cumulative Update for SQL Server 2005 SP3. This CU contains only hotfixes that were released in Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 and Cumulative Update 11 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. These
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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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Have you ever had to move your master database? Or have you ever opened the folder which contains your master database? Both cases - if that ever happened to you, you should already know about the Resource Database - a hidden, read-only database introduced
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