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Configuring Change Data Capture

Vidhya Sagar — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:06:53 +0000

In this article I’m going to configure change data capture. I’m going to create a new database and a table for this purpose. Configuring CDC is very simple it’s just a two step process as below Enable CDC for the …

Change Data Capture

Vidhya Sagar — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:08:58 +0000

What is Change Data Capture? CDC is acronym for Change Data Capture. This is one of the new feature added from SQL Server 2008. CDC helps us to provide information about DML changes on a table and a database. It …

Performance Data Collector – Part 1

Vidhya Sagar — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:28:48 +0000

Performance Data Collector is one of the new features that’s accompanied from SQL Server 2008. If you are a DBA , you know it’s very hard to get performance data from necessary inputs. We will get the data from Perfmon …

DotNet 3.5 on Windows 7 to Install SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:22:35 +0000

This is a quick post to install or enable .Net 3.5 on windows 7. Last couple of weeks I’m seeing more questions on installing SQL Server 2008 in windows 7 and the users are unable to install SQL Server 2008 …

Merge Drop Slipstream Setup – SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:39:14 +0000

Merge Drop Slipstream Setup – SQL Server 2008

Basic Slipstream Setup – SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:54:17 +0000

Basic Slipstream Setup – SQL Server 2008

SlipStream in SQL Server 2008 Setup

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:02:53 +0000

SlipStream in SQL Server 2008 Setup

Types of Data Compression – SQL Server 2008 – Part 3

Vidhya Sagar — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:15:50 +0000

In my previous article we have seen the need for compression, goal of compression etc. In this article we are going to discuss the types of compression supported in SQL Server 2008. There are two types of compression supported and …

Data Compression – SQL Server 2008 – Part 2

Vidhya Sagar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:12:07 +0000

In Part1 article I’ve described the need for compression in SQL Server and also gave a brief on Compression enhancement overview. As a next step, in this article I’m going to describe the existing compression techniques, overview of basic compression …

Data Compression – SQL Server 2008 – Part 1

Vidhya Sagar — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:32:18 +0000

Data compression is an enhanced feature available in SQL Server 2008. Database compression in SQL Server is introduced with SQL Server 2005 SP2 onwards where we have the capability to compress VARDECIMAL data type. This compression works when the actual …