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  • Auditing in SQL Server 2008

    Auditing is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2008. Auditing is a general word and its related to sql server to capture events that occurs in sql server, it’s similar to tracking the processes happening in sql server. This feature helps database administrators to implement a strategy to know who is performing what or…

  • Transfer Jobs and Logins using SSIS

    We can use SQL Server Integration Services to transfer the logins and jobs from SQL 2005 to another SQL 2005 or SQL 2008. This comes in handy when its difficult to script each of the jobs . Firstly we need to create an SSIS package.

  • Intellisence

    What is Intellisense? IntelliSense is Microsoft’s implementation of auto completion, best known for its use in the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment. This feature is now included in SQL Server 2008 and this is available from SSMS 2008. When this feature is enabled it will auto complete functions, syntax, database names etc.

  • Log file growth in SQL Server

    Each database in SQL Server contains at least one data file and one transaction log file. The transaction log file stores the details of all the modifications that are performed in the SQL Server database. If the transaction log file in a SQL Server database has grown enormously and if you have set the option…

  • How to Recover from Suspect Database

    Many DBAs would have seen the database marked as suspect. If a database is marked suspect it cannot be accessed and hence nothing can be performed in the database. In this article I am going to explain how to overcome this and bring the database back to normalcy. There are three possible Workarounds to bring…

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