Microsoft SQL Server
I’d read that DTS packages could be stored on SQL Server 2005 64-bit, but not executed on this server. Workarounds I’ve seen range from creating SSIS packages with Execute DTS tasks, migrations to SSIS using the wizard or third party tools, and running the DTS Packages from a 32-bit server against the 64-bit target. Recently (and much to my embarrassment after making that statement), a colleague demonstrated that this is not correct.
To be able to install ASP.NET 32-bit on a 64-bit IIS, you need to configure IIS to run 32-bit web applications. With Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, IIS can be enabled to run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit Windows using the Windows32-On-Windows64(WoW64) compatibility layer. This makes it possible to run ASP.NET 32-bit and other 32-bit web applications as well as allow creation of 32-bit worker processes. Here’s how to complete the install.
This is the first post in a series dedicated to exploring the backup and availability options in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. It is aimed at anyone unfamiliar with the database backup options in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. I’m not going to explore every single option or scenario, the goal is to give you the language and the tools to do deep dives where you need to.
Before SQL Server 2008, there was no native support for running the same query against multiple instances using shipped tools, so it can be approached in one of these ways…I’ve used nearly all of them, but I have found that linked servers provide a higher degree of control on the target servers, error handling, and most important, the ability to use SQL server Encryption to store the credentials of source servers if some of the servers are using SQL authentication.
Have you ever been asked to restore a database and wondered which backup files were available? And if many were available, which ones you should use, and in which order? Okay, this is not a difficult thing to do, but when you do it over and over again, it becomes tedious, and the automation bug in you starts to look for a better and quicker way to handle it. The bug in me found the following answer.
Using OLE DB to get SQL Server to connect to Oracle servers can be done quite easily, but there are a few little tricks you should know to make it go smoothly. Once it’s working it seems to work quite well. I hope this blog post will save you a few headaches.
A year ago, the outline was being written. A lot of work was crammed into the intervening months, and I am happy and proud to announce that the MySQL Administrator’s Bible has been published, and is sitting on the shelf at many major booksellers already. The official publication date is today — Monday, May 11th, 2009 — although some stores have had copies for a week, including Amazon.com.
The presentation in two parts was exactly what an Oracle DBA like me would need to have a peek into the security territory of SQL Server. I was afraid it would be really “deep dive” and assumed lots of SQL Server knowledge but I was actually fine. I think it would be cool to have a full day real deep dive and looking at what Peter was talking about, I’m convinced that he could keep going further and further into details should we give him more time.
In SQL Server Replication, a regular check is getting the number of undistributed commands for a transactional subscription. This can be done using the replication monitor (SQlmonitor.exe from the RUN prompt) or programmatically by running sp_replmonitorsubscriptionpendingcmds at the Distributor on the distribution database. To return this, my idea was to get a list of publishers, publications, subscribers, and so on, into a temporary table, loop against the result, and run sp_replmonitorsubscriptionpendingcmds for each row, and then join against MSdistribution_history for the final result. Here it is. All comments and additions are welcome.
Early in 2008 I came across a toolkit that Microsoft had released a couple of months before, called RML Utilities. I downloaded RML Utilities from the Microsoft website, started playing with it, and found it quite interesting. More than one year after that, and one cumulative update later, I still find that relatively few people in the SQL Server world know about this toolkit. When I ask a SQL Server DBA about RML Utilities it’s not uncommon to hear in reply: “RML-what?” Here’s a review.
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