Few months ago I blogged about importance of trace flat 845 and required settings on Memory when you have 32-bit environment or mixture of both 32-bit & 64-bit software on same hardware. No doubt that the physical resources are managed differently b...

What more you need when a week long learning is scheduled as conferences for SQL Server users to attend. Conference means full day seminars in (order of happening) Edinburgh, Mancheser, Birmingham, Bristol and London. The agenda includes deep-dive sessi...

SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack, as the name suggests the pack contains important collection of stand-alone packages that provides additional value and helping hand to your design, development, maintenance & support of your data platform. Microsoft dev...

Exceptional DBA Awards do not any introduction, that are hosted by SQLServerCentral and sponsored by Red-Gate software. My fellow MVP & Mentor Brad McGeehee has announced entry to this year's award. This is what I like about Exceptional DBA Award:...

Its one year on my first book released, keeping aside the financial gains from this book I'm more happy to achieve one of the important goals from my career. This is something big in my life to announce, it gives immensive pleasure and happiness to sh...

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It will be ideal too, to compare the COMPRESSION ratio on backup size with other backup tools. However you need to highlight the reasons that why you cannot COMPRESS the backup in certain situations....

On May 08th and 09th 2012 I had an opportunity to present 3 sessions related to SQL Server technologies at SQL Server 2012 & SharePoint Technologies in Germany....

SQL Server upgrade, let it be database(s) or instance(s) or both the process and procedures must follow best practices in order to reduce any problems that may occur even after the platform is upgraded. The success of any project relies upon the simple...

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) toolkit helps the migration of your IT environment, in specific I use this product whenever a database and instance upgrade projct is planned. The MAP 6.5 adds the cloud migration planning too, that confirms journ...