If you have SQL Server 2008 Trial edition installed, how can you find out how many days are left?
It doesn't seem to be in the Help-About dialog, or anywhere obvious.
Hello,
Actually I run RAID 5 (4 x SAS drives) with
Win 2008 Ent(1x host)
Win 2008 End(3x guest)
Sql Server 2005 Std (on guest)
3 x asp.net applications (on guest)
I bought 3 x drives to create additional array (on same controller E200i, I am waiting now for confirmation is it possible to have 3 raids in same controller)
I am planning to have 2 x RAID5 (if it is possible)
first RAID 5 with all vhd files,
systems etc
second RAID 5 all data files and transaction logs
I am looking for opinion how to optimize data layer (seven drives, one controller).
I'm trying to speed up my PC, and I figured out that a full version of SQL Management Studio 2012 is installed including localhost server.
I only need to connect to remote hosts, so running a local server by default should be disabled. Is there an easy way to disable certain parts so I can speed up my PC and booting time?
Thanks in advance. I really have no clue what processes I can disable without ruining everything.
How costly (CPU or memory wise) is it to have multiple instances of SQL server 2005 instead of only one instance with prefixed databases?
A company have three application providers. They each will install one application and they each require two or three databases. Should they all use the same instance or should every provider use it's own named instance?
Is there any strong reason for one or other setup?
I've installed SQL Express on my PC hoping to do some practice creating tables and then modifying them. I coded a webpage in Visual Studio to, basically, SELECT * from a table in the SQLEXPRESS, but I can never get the connection string to work. Please help
My connection string
"Data
Source=localhost\SQLEXPRESS;Initial
Catalog=test;User
Id=xaa9-PC\xaa9;Password=abcd;"
Error Message:
Query is select * from tblCustomers
where username='johndoe' error is
Login failed for user 'xaa9-PC\xaa9'.
I want to create a sequence of numbers in sql server it will have the minimum value and maximum value, I want to cycle if the number reaches the maximum limit. ?
Has anyone ever ran across a program that in a generic manner will execute a sql query and then based on criteria email out alerts. Going to create such a framework but don't want to re create the wheel if I don't have to. It could be used to check various things like if things are setup correctly inside our ERP etc...
Thanks for any thoughts.
Michael
Hey Guys,
Is it a bad idea to put Exchange and Sql Server on a same box?
We have about 4-5 GB database and 10 users for exchange, can this work?
Thanks
It's possible I am unable to resolve this because I have been spoiled in other DEV environments where I had one database server for each reporting server.
I need some advise on how to point a single SQL Server reporting server to multiple database servers. These databases correspond to DEV, TEST and QA environments.
The way the reporting is currently configured I am unable to toggle between environments gracefully.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
According to a popular SO post is it considered a bad practice to prefix table names. At my company every column is prefixed by a table name. This is difficult for me to read. I'm not sure the reason, but this naming is actually the company standard. I can't stand the naming convention, but I have no documentation to back up my reasoning.
All I know is that reading AdventureWorks is much simpler. In this our company DB you will see a table, Person and it might have column name:
Person_First_Name
or maybe even
Person_Person_First_Name (don't ask me why you see person 2x)
Why is it considered a bad practice to pre-fix column names? Are underscores considered evil in SQL as well?
Note: I own Pro SQL Server 2008 - Relation Database design and implementation. References to that book are welcome.
I've been tasked with taking over the administration of a MySQL installation (running on Red Hat Linux) that will become fairly critical to our business in the near future.
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some resources in regards to administering MySQL for DBAs already experienced with other relational database (SQL Server and some Oracle in my case). Specifically I'm looking for information around disaster recovery as well as high availability to start with, but I do want to get well rounded with the entire system.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
I have 8 SQL Server installations (on 8 separate servers).
I want a way in which I can estimate future disk space requirements. Can anyone list down the parameters which can be helpful in making such reports?
Hi,
On a SQL server, why do we need a weekly update stats job (with full scan) when we have AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS=ON for all databases?
Doesn't this option update statistics all the time?
Regards
Hi
I currently loook after 20 odd databases in SQL server 2005 and need a tool for monitoring the performance and keep me informed if a database is running slow. Is there anything I can run within Managment studio of any other good third party tool (Pref free) that can do the job.
Thanks
Hello,
I run into the same issue as someone who posted this question on experts-exchange.com (couldn't read the answer though as I don't have an account there):
{Quote Begin}
I noticed that the 180-day Evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 is the
Enterprise version. Is there going to be any problem "upgrading" the Evaluation Enterprise
version to a licensed STANDARD version (and how much additional stuff is going to be
left inactive on my disk and, more importantly, in my registry, etc. if I do
so)?
{Quote End}
Any advice is appreciated.
Recently we completed a new MSSQL cluster that we are planning on migrating all existing SQL databases to. This includes our Sharepoint databases, while looking into moving the databases I found the Microsoft documentation for moving Sharepoint 2007, however have not been able to find anything similar for Sharepoint 2003. Can anyone point me to a guide for moving the databases, or provide some tips, instructions or warnings? Thanks
I have a Sql Server database that has a few tables with zero row count but take up a combined 10 GB of space. I can see this by doing right-click/properties on the tables in question (data space is huge, between 1 and 6 GB, and row count is zero on these tables). I have no clue what could be causing this as I would assume zero rows would mean nearly zero space taken.
Any ideas?
Hi,
I was asked to drop some tables on a Company SQL 2005 Server and provide proof of deletion because of these tables contains sensible data. Is it possible?
Thank you all for help
I have Windows Server 2008, with IIS 7.5 and SQL Server 2008. I want to install DotNetNuke which is an ASP.NET application. What are the necessary precautions to not to get pwn3d.
I use Windows 7 & Sql Server 2008.
If I run Management Studio as normal user and try to connect to database 'MyDatabase', I get this error message 'The database MyDatabase is not accessible'.
I I run Management Studio per right click 'Run as administrator', then 'MyDatabase' is accessible.
Where & what should I set, to be able to access MyDatabase as normal user?
I'm having a strange problem with a SQL Server Maintenance Plan. It's set up to run a Reorganise Indexes and Rebuild Indexes, the history shows it has succeeded, but the fragmentation is still bad and requires me to manually intervene to fix them.
Has anyone seen this before?
We are switching from a SQL cluster to a mirrored solution. The problem is that we have a bunch of programs that would have to switch connection strings to handle the failover. Is there any way the we can set up a redirect or proxy that would take any legacy requests and forward them to the mirrored solution?
Client asked if we can host our application for them on Amazon Cloud. The app has database running on MS SQL Server which is approximately 20 Gb in size.
We need to update the database almost every night and approximately 75% of all data is overwritten each time.
Any idea whether Amazon EC2 can reliably handle a load like that?