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Author: Alexander Chigrik
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In this article, I want to tell you about undocumented system tables shipped with SQL Server 7.0. These tables are used by some system stored procedures and stored in the master database (only the sysfiles1 system table is stored in each database)....
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In this article, I want to tell you about some useful undocumented stored procedures shipped with SQL Server 6.5....
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Author: Tom Pullen
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In this article, I want to tell you about data page structure in MS SQL Server 6.5, which are substantially different that what you currently find in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000....
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In this article, I want to tell you about some useful undocumented DBCC commands, and how you can use these commands in SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 for administering and monitoring.
DBCC is an abbreviation for Database Console Command. DBCC commands are generally used to check the physical and logical consistency of a database, although they are also used for a variety of miscellaneous tasks, as you will see here....
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November 2, 1999 This presentation will cover the basic Full-Text Search (FTS) features and functionality introduced in SQL Server 7.0. We will discuss the Full-Text Indexing and Search processes, compare FTS results to the LIKE function. We will also talk about FTS stored procedures, FTS performance tuning, and basic troubleshooting methods....
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October 5, 1999
This presentation covers the internals of the replication mechanism in SQL Server 6.5. It discusses the replication processes in depth and covers administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting....
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October 26, 1999
This presentation is designed to give developers an overview of OLE DB provider and data source specific issues with SQL Server 7.0 distributed queries. We will also discuss how to develop and troubleshoot an OLE DB provider to work with SQL Server 7.0 distributed queries....
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Author: Alexander Chigrik
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SQL Server 6.5 can use two different methods to update records, depending on the circumstances. They include:
* Direct Update * Deferred Update
Each method affects performance in a different way, as we shall see in this article....
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Author: Michael McManus
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What if you need to convert an existing Microsoft Access 97 database application into a true client-server application that is based on a SQL Server back end? If you know a little about Visual Basic and SQL Server, it's easy to make your app take advantage of the power and scalability provided by SQL Server 7.0....
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Author: Dino Esposito
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Universal Data Access (UDA) is Microsoft's solution for integrating different data sources into applications. OLE DB provides an API that allows you to expose heterogeneous data sources through a common set of software toolsâ?"specifically COM interfaces. While it is relatively easy to devise a common API to expose proprietary data in a standardized way, creating a general-purpose, universally valid mechanism for querying data is not as easy. In fact, it probably can't be done....
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In this article, I want to tell you what should you know about some undocumented SQL Server 7.0 trace flags, and how you can use them for administration and monitoring....
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Author: Randy Dyess
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Trace flags are used to temporarily enable or disable specific SQL Server database functions, allowing you to change default database behavior or to observe hidden database behavior, and will remain in effect until they are either manually turned off or SQL Server is restarted. Keep in mind that most trace flags are undocumented and Microsoft can and will change the behavior of the flag between SQL Server versions, service packs or hot fixes....
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Author: Angsuman Chakraborty
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A much dreaded MySQL error message during queries is "MySQL server has gone away". An alternative message is "Lost connection to server during query". This is a strange problem which afflicts a wide variety of PHP software including but not limited to WordPress. There are several causes for it. Let's look at the common and some rare causes and what you can do to fix it....
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Author: Jackie Goldstein
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers developers an advanced and powerful database engine and comprehensive programming framework with which to create data centric solutions. Since Visual Studio 2008 and 2005 were released before SQL Server 2008, their respective tools and data designers do not automatically support SQL Server 2008 and its new data types and features. Microsoft is providing SQL Server 2008 support updates for Visual Studio in order to allow the designers to communicate with SQL Serve...
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Author: Matthew Ellis
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Beginning where the article Virtual Earth, SQL Server 2008 and AJAX left off, we’ll add to our real estate application by enabling the insertion of new properties into our SQL Server 2008 database by querying the Yahoo Geocode service to retrieve the longitude and latitude of a specified address....
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Author: Edgewood Solutions Engineers
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Back in June 2007, we announced that SQL Server 2008 is on its way in this tip SQL Server 2008 has arrived. In addition, we talked about how to learn more about SQL Server 2008 in this tip Learning SQL Server 2008. The problem with learning something new is that it often takes a lot of time to setup an environment before you can actually do anything. With server virtualization this is much easier to setup and take down servers at will, but this still requires effort to get the virtual server s...
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Author: Ray Barley
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While reviewing the new features in SQL Server 2008, we noticed Transparent Data Encryption. This sounds very interesting. Could you provide us with an explanation and the details to implement it? TDE is a new feature in SQL Server 2008; it provides real time encryption of data and log files. Data is encrypted before it is written to disk; data is decrypted when it is read from disk. The "transparent" aspect of TDE is that the encryption is performed by the database engine and SQL Server cli...
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Author: Ray Barley
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SQL Server 2008 provides the capability of storing BLOBs (e.g. MP3, Word, Excel, PDF, etc.) in the NTFS file system rather than in a database file. I am interested in how to configure the FILESTREAM technology in Management Studio. Could you help us to understand the benefits and provide details on how to implement this new feature in SQL Server 2008? Further, I am interested in how to use this functionality with the C# programming language....
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Author: Edwin Sarmiento
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In relation to the tip on Policy-Based Management in SQL Server 2008, we would like to implement policies on multiple SQL Server 2008 and even SQL Server 2005 instances. Can you give us a detailed explanation of how we go about doing this? Policies in SQL Server 2008 can be evaluated on the instance on which it was created. But one of the most tedious task that a database administrator needs to do is to go thru each of the SQL Server instances he or she manages and implement those polices. What...
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Author: Ray Barley
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We are just getting started with PerformancePoint Server 2007 and trying to help our business users to develop their first scorecard. For those of you who are new to Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, PPS is a recent addition to the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering. PPS enables users to develop a variety of reports and scorecards, then compose them into a dashboard which is deployed to SharePoint. Business users can then simply navigate to a URL in a SharePoint site to access t...
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