In the database world Performance and Scalability goes in line like a railway track! In parallel SQLBits conferences are more popular in UK and Europe, where you get real-world content to learn and share. For the year 2010 it is SQLBits - The 6th Sets our latest, and if we may be so bold, our greatest...

How can you achieve the High Availability & Disaster Recovery on database platform? What are factors involved to keep the system available to maintain revenue stream? What kind of management principles you need to implement? Well there are lot more questions involved to the subject, only few important...

As a SQL Server user Object Explorer is one component that you will never miss when you are using SQL Server Management Studio, in specific from version 2005 onwards. As it states this connects to Database Engine instances, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Reporting Services, and SQL Server Compact...

To continue the story about SQLBits V conference and list of sessions that I have submitted , here is news for you to participate in voting. If you are registered on the site you can now vote on the sessions you want to see at the next SQLBits. Voting is Open Have your say on what sessions are chosen...

Another exciting news from Scottish Area SQL Server User Group meeting on October 08th 2009 [Thursday] with the topic: SQL Server Performance Analysis Tools and Powershell. The topic itself is very interesting in terms how DBAs will tackle the performance issues and give you a glimpse of tools that are...

During the end of March 2009 I have presented a session " Upgrading To SQL Server 2005 & 2008: Notes & Best Practices" in SQLBits IV conference at Manchester. The session covered a brief tour on SQL Server Upgrade options, methodology, tools and planning, technical and non-technical...

If you are using SQL Server Log Shipping then above error message number will be familiar. One of the following error messages may be logged in the SQL Server error log: Error message 14420 Error: 14420, Severity: 16, State: 1 The log shipping destination %s.%s is out of sync by %s minutes. Error message...

Its over half-year that SQL Server 2008 has been RTM'd and now it is time to test the CTP (Community Technology Preview) aka beta version of Service Pack 1 for this version. Absolutely right, for those of you waiting to try SQL Server 2008 until SP1 is available, which is a good news for most of...

In continuation to this SQL Server 2008 - Policy Based Management - usage of ##MS_PolicyEventProcessingLogin## under Security, Logins in Management Studio post in the past there is more to talk about Executing Context and Security policy within SQL Server (since 2005 version). As you may be aware that...