Make information archival a component of your SharePoint content lifecycle management strategy Organizations are generating large volumes of mission-critical information on Microsoft SharePoint. As hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of unstructured content are being accumulated in SQL Server, managing...

What will be the main challenge for a DBA/User to manage a large Data Warehouse (DW) environment, size does matter and also think about downtime you need to deploy whenever any patches are required. Before that you need to be perfect or well-versed with Data partitioning & Data lifecycle within that...

Introducing Idera's Point admin toolset BETA : 10 Tools To Simplify SharePoint Management Idera is pleased to announce our new SharePoint management tool, the Point admin toolset (TM) , is now in BETA and ready for download! If you're faced with SharePoint sprawl, out-of-control backups and compliance...

Free webcast is convened by IDERA Wednesday, June 25, 2008 .. | .. 11:00 AM CST | .. 12:00 PM EST "The Key to Enforcing Compliance and Standardization: Policies" While managing complex database environments, one of the most challenging objectives IT executives, managers and administrators face...

This is anothe FAQ within the forums about what is the major difference between 32 bit and 64 bit application, well the answer you get is Memory. I feel there is much more associated between them, follow this ForumDiscussion topic for more information.

A newbie or FAQ within Forums and Newsgroups that having multiple instances and how best to set the resources on the server such as memory, CPU etc. Should you configure each of the instances to use specific portions of the available Operating System resources then best to leave the default settings...

Another tool within BI platform to use when you have the huge farm of Analysis Services data warehousing & mining database setup at your end. So the provision of BI within SQL Server 2005 is a complete enterprise-ready and scalable data warehouse platform you can set, with the features and functionality...

Managing SharePoint is about more than just backup, recovery, administration, or migration. An effective SharePoint strategy means being proactive, scrutinizing the entire platform (including SQL Server), and reducing your vulnerability. This white paper offers best practices to help you understand the...

Ok, they give you new tool and in next release it has been taken away! This is similar to Surface Area Configuration tool from SQL Server 2005 and after 3 years you don't see from next release which is SQL Server 2008. How do you manage or can administer the multiple servers with the configuration...

Do you like color-coded alert say when you are executing a TSQL script or code against a SQL Server instance, say if its a production server with 'red' indicator or 'green' when it is on testing platform! I have no doubt in stating the new 'Server Alert' snap-in for SQL Server...