Category: DBA
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Policy Based Management (PBM)
Introduction: Policy based management is one of the new feature added from SQL Server 2008. With the help of this feature you can evaluate an instance or database or objects to bound with in certain conditions policies. If any of the objects or instances failed to bound with in the policy then it can either…
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Configuring SQL Server Reporting Services
In my previous article we have covered installing reporting service. The next step in reporting service is to configure them according to your environment. There are many options are available in reporting service configuration. You need to configure all these values with respect to your environment. There are two ways to configure reporting service a.)…
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Installing SQL Server Reporting Service
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services enables organizations to transform valuable enterprise data into shared information for insightful, timely decisions at a lower total cost of ownership. In this article Im going to install SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services on Windows 2003 machine. Lets discuss about installation of reporting services.
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SQL Server 2005 Full Text Search
We had a requirement where the user had to do a search on Overview/description field which had nvarchar (max) data type. Full text search can be used for searching against the LOB data types like nvarchar (max), text and BLOB data types like varbinary (max) and image data type. Please note that in image and…
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How to change Server Collation in SQL Server 2008
In this article we are going to discuss about changing SQL Server 2008 collation at serverlevel. While installing SQL Server 2008 we may miss to choose the right collation and we need to rectify this by changing the collation at serverlevel. You can change the collation of sql server without uninstalling. Lets discuss the necessary…