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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Though High-Availability is something critical...
Though High-Availability is something critical for all large database deployments. There are multiple options one can use. For discussion today, what is database mirroring option? What are the...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Any database design can include only the...
Any database design can include only the Normal forms. But while a DBA performs a product deployment it is critical to take care of certain factors for Index creation. On that lines, explain...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Compliance is one of the non-negotiable in...
Compliance is one of the non-negotiable in this era. SQL Server has had so many options like C2 Auditing since the SQL Server 2000 days. With the advent of Policy Based Management inside SQL Server...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - As part of performance tuning exercise our...
As part of performance tuning exercise our developer always suggested to use SET based operations rather than using procedural languages. One of the suggestions given for substitute for hierarchical...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Using datetime functions inside SQL Server...
Using datetime functions inside SQL Server have always been a struggle and there are multiple options. There have been interesting usages of GETDATE but interesting functions like SYSDATETIME(),...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Recently I was contacted by one of my friends...
Recently I was contacted by one of my friends operating a large database that he was running out of disk space because of some table with many indexes unnecessarily created. Even after truncating the...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - There are multiple performance troubleshooting...
There are multiple performance troubleshooting tools which a DBA can use inside SQL Server from Perfmon, SQL Profiler and multiple third Party tools. One of the hidden features most forgotten is the...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - As databases volumes become big and big the...
As databases volumes become big and big the best way to optimize would be take the big problem and break it up into smaller chunks. During a large server deployment DBA suggested implementing...
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SQL Server General Quiz 2012 - Reporting and analytics cannot be achieved...
Reporting and analytics cannot be achieved without a very good data model at the background. And using Analysis services for reporting requirement is always something very common architecture. But...
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The Page – How SQL Server Stores Data - sqlity.net
SQL Server organizes all data into virtual containers called pages. The DBCC PAGE command can be used to explore these pages. This post starts a series about pages in SQL Server.See it on Scoop.it,...
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