SQL Server security best practice

Security! This is the word comes in mind of every concerned person when it come...

9/27/2007

Tuning Stored Procedure

Most of the time I come accross the thread wherein user has requested to get started with stored procedure performance tuning , so here are some good reference material for tuning stored procedure and optimize stored procedure for performancehttp://www.sql-server-performance.com/tips/stored_procedures_p1.aspx, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/performancetuningstoredprocedures/2505/ and http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid87_gci1247499,00.ht...

9/10/2007

Automate Profiler Trace

The question I recently come accorss on SQL Server Performance, the OP was asking on "How to automate profiler trace" , their are system stroed procedure that can be used to automate profiler trace. The system stored procedure you can use are sp_trace_create,sp_trace_generateevent,sp_trace_setevent,sp_trace_setfilter and sp_trace_setstatus. Here is complete procedure described on "How to automate profiler trace" , refer http://vyaskn.tripod.com/server_side_tracing_in_sql_server.htmHere is a link on "How to monitor trace on SQL Server...

9/06/2007

New KB articles are added for SQL Server 2005

New Knowledge Base articles are added for SQL Server 2005, Here are the linksFIX: The performance of a query that performs an insert operation or an update operation is much slower in SQL Server 2005 SP2 than in earlier versions of SQL Server 2005FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you use a SQL Native Client provider to read the data on the client computer in SQL Server 2005How to enable the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services process to generate a dump file when the process experiences exceptionsFIX: Error message when you run...

Renaming SQL Server that hosts Reporting Server

Sometimes business demands or change in naming convention for servers lead to situation where one should change / rename the Server running MS SQL Server, it would not that panic renaming SQL Server as you have sp_dropserver and sp_addserver to help you, but what if this SQL Server box have reporting server too; well microsoft has workaround for it refer - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345235.as...

9/05/2007

Devcon2007 - A great Success

Hi All,I am too glad... DevCon 2007 organized pune has great success, over 1100 attendes was recorded for this event. I thought this would the highest number of audiance till date , it includs IT professionals and students.Special thanks to all energetic members and volunteers of Pune User Group members and MSP(s) who has played key role in this succes...