Granting permissions to relevant account is a required criteria within the SQL Server databases management, for this even Reporting Services is not exceptional. As per the configuration by default the users connect to the report server by using their own Windows domain credentials and integrated security...

Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day! The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft...

Performance - one word does it all! You are aware that during the Performance Tuning exercise there are few quick wins within the SQL Server Relational Database Engine such as table statistics for data and indexes. When it comes to Analysis Services (BI) database then no difference as one o f the greatest...

How do you define the terms "Performance Monitoring"? What is your baseline & benchmarks? Have you ever used PERFMON (SYSMON) & PROFILER for serious performance issues within your SQL Server environment? The answer may be not 'yes' for all the questions above, in general getting...

What is your criteria on assigning ports to SQL Server? Are you leaving them to default 1433? Is your SQL Server is exposed to Internet or any external sources where there is a chance to produce mass attach or run code injection? Every DBA should give a review about these 3 points on the terms of security...

What kind of database maintenance operations you should be doing when you are DBA? You should have better understanding on the terms in managing the Database platform at your end, without proper information it is very hard to say you are managing your platform effectively. Think about DBCC checks, backups...

You may be well versed with scheduling the database backups using SQL Serve Agent --> Jobs with Enterprise Manager or Management Studio. So how about creating a automation job for SQL Server 2005 analysis services database backup every night. Simple, within SQL Server 2005 version you can schedule...

Since the inception of SQL Server 2005 data encryption and cryptography functionality has elevated to a new level, this wasn't the case until SQL 2000 version. The overall security improvements within SQL 2005 is mainly with 'certficate' authentication, the 3 levels are: Authentication –...