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Databases have the nasty habit of growing to mammoth sizes with continued usage over years. And it is common knowledge that databases that grow too large become prone to problems such as corruption, mismanagement etc. It thus becomes important to keep tabs on their growing sizes before they reach the
» Read moreSingle Instance Pros Only one instance needs to be administered on the single machine. There is no duplication of components or processing overhead, such as having to run multiple database engines on the same computer. This means that the overall performance of a server with a single instance may be
» Read moreWe have said before that indexes are easily the most important database structures insofar as database performance tuning is concerned. Therefore, you must pay keen attention to their configuration, structure and arrangement in order to get the best level of performance out of them. Theory of index fragmentation Fragmentation does
» Read moreProblem\Issue: User is not able to connect the SQL Server Named Instance ServerName\InstanceName Additional Error Messages: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is
» Read moreThere is undocumented system stored procedure sp_readerrorlog which allows us to read the SQL Server error log files directly using T-SQL. This procedure has total 7 parameters as given below: Parameter Values First Parameter Value of error log file you want to read: 0 = current, 1 = Archive #1,
» Read moreIn the previous post SQL Server – AlwaysOn Availability Groups, described enhancement to SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn Availability Groups. In this post, we will see how to enable SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups using UI and PowerShell. Using UI Go to SQL Server Configuration Manager >> Navigate to SQL
» Read moreI would like to start this topic with very common question for database administrators. Question: What is difference between the Database Mirroring and Log Shipping? Which is preferable solution? Database Mirroring: Database mirroring is functionality in the SQL Server engine that reads from the transaction log and copies transactions from
» Read moreWhat is Log Shipping? Log Shipping is a basic level SQL Server high-availability technology. It is automated process to send the transaction log backups from a primary database on a primary server instance to one or more secondary databases on separate secondary server instances. The transaction log backups are applied
» Read moreError Messages : This backend version is not supported to design database diagrams or tables. (MS Visual Database Tools) Cause : The database to which you are connected does not allow schema modification with the Visual Database Tools. Resolution : Be sure you are connected to the correct database or
» Read moreMany times we face a requirement to perform the unattended installation of SQL Server. In this post we will see the steps to perform the unattended installation of SQL Server 2012 using command line. There are two ways to install the unattended installation of SQL Server 2012 using command line.
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