Its a general assumption that whenever performance is degraded, the finger will be pointed to SQL Server, pretty easy eh!? If you look at any of the SQL Server related forums then 3 in 10 questions asks same question and nothing but shove blame on SQL Server. It is always better to be proactive than reactive, when it comes to identifying and ...

You may be aware that using SSL communications a HTTP server can have encryption for us, in this regard certificates must be authorized for server authentication. Microsoft recommends that you can do this by either obtaining an SSL certificate from a certificate-issuing authority, such as Verisign, or if for testing purposes, by using tools to ...

This was the question from SSP forums, I’m trying to rebuild few fragmented indexes on a table that is updated on regular basis. The “dbcc showcontig” gave this result: Table: 'Confidential' (999999999); index ID: 5, database ID: 5 LEAF level scan performed. - Pages Scanned................................: 86 - Extents ...

Yet another AWE memory settings blog post here that I'm posting for the issues we have had recently. Before going into details review about 3GBPAE blurb here and also refer to this KBA274750 to enable more than 2GB memory within your SQL Server Enterprise edition instance. Coming to the problem on a server having 6GB RAM and having required ...

I have gone through a question within the forums asking ''smaller disks or more spindles'' which is better for performance. The simple answer is more disks to handle the data growth and also mostly depends upon the number of transactons that are handled with a sensible normalization, as the transactions method & the CHECKPOINT method are ...

What advantages we took when deployed the 64-bit computing within SQL Server As you aware 64 bit computing with 64-bit processors have become the standard for systems ranging from the most scalable servers to desktop PCs. The way to take full advantage of these systems is with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows products. Same way SQL Server has ...

You may be aware that the indexes on a SQL Server database take up space, so in case of unused indexes its obvious that they waste storage. It is easy to find the indexes using SP_HELPINDEX statement against a table, so to identify the unused indexes what is the way out. In the previous versions of SQL Server Index Tuning wizard is only way out, ...

Error: An error has occured while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005,this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.(provider:Named Pipes Provider,error:40-Could not open connection to SQL Server)) You might have seen the above error very ...

You might have come across a situation to have a better understanding on what /3GB or /PAE switch means that are referred in documentations and forums you go on. I will try my best to give you the notes what I have understood so far in this regard. From the available documentation on Technet & MSDN it is pretty informative that : The /3GB ...

As you might come across this BlogPost here but still there are more doubts to be cleared on the reasons for granting Lock Memory in Pages option to the SQL server instance. There is still lot of confusion over there to check whether lock memory in pages option must be set on SQL 2005 and not very clear from Books online information on the ...