Posts by Mohammed Mawla
For the business world , a good RDMS is one that can provide high availability (HA) options with minimal downtime and cheapest licenses. Vendors, usually if not always, provide a set of HA features to satisfy different needs. Usually some of these features are reserved for higher-end editions: Enterprise, Datacenter, cluster or whatever named; of course, those editions are more expensive than their “inferior” counterparts. Most important factors on choosing an edition are:
Until very recently, SQL Azure was the only solution offering SQL server on cloud, Google Cloud SQL offering MySQL only and Amazon offering MySQL and Oracle Not anymore! The online retail and cloud solution giant is now offering SQL server as part of its RDS service and also added ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
TEMPDB, is one of SQL server hot-debated topics; there’s always something to say about its sizing, file placement or datafiles count in Multi-core instances. This is simply because TEMPDB is a global resource that’s heavily used and very critical asset in a busy instance; this makes any advice against TEMPDB fall in the “It depends” category.
So HP Cloud is finally yielding for some beta rain since their announcement late September. It started late September when I signed up for private beta testing. Two weeks ago, I got invited to join the beta and start testing the platform, here’s whats offered.
A frequent inquiry concerning databases’ security is to retrieve the database role(s) associated with each user for auditing or troubleshooting purposes. Each database user (principal) can be retrieved from sys.database_principals and the associated database roles can be retrieved from sys.database_role_members The following code runs against ALL the databases using SP_MSForeachdb and all roles for one principal is concatenated in one row
In this post I’ll Briefly cover the changes to SQL Server licencing which happened in two areas, edition changes and licensing changes. Lets get started.
If you ever used SQL server Database Engine Tuning Advisor then you know you have few options as a source of analysis workload, here they are.
If you do any performance tuning , and everyone does, then you’ll come to a point where you want to know if your tables have sufficient indexes to serve the queries fast, here’s how.
The 60s are NOT back but during the month of November , some gents , including myself, will grow a stache to raise the awareness of prostate cancer, an insidious disease that afflicts one in seven males.
After an in place upgrade of SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2008 R2 , I tried to open SQL errorlog from Management> SQL server logs but I got the following error. Here’s how I fixed it.
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