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In my earlier blog post on Shrinking the Transaction Log files in SQL Server , I had mentioned that a VLF can be truncated only when all transactions, that have at least one command written into the specified VLF have either been committed or rolled back.
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This post is again in response to requests from customers who want to know how to configure Database Mirroring between instances of SQL Server 2005 in a WORKGROUP. As you might have noticed, while configuring Database Mirroring using the GUI, it requires
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Hi Friends, This post comes as a response to requests from many of our customers, who want to know the step by step process on how to configure SQL Server Database Mail to send emails using their Windows Live Mail Account or their Gmail Account. If you
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Over the last few years that I have been in Microsoft, I have come across multiple issues where database administrators have mistakenly made inappropriate changes to the clustered SQL Server registry hives. Later, when SQL Server restarts (either due
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Hi Friends, After 3 posts on Database Corruption, I hope you would not mind if I divert my attention a bit and post some blogs related to some other topics. This topic that I going to write about is a very interesting topic; so I thought of taking some
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Hi Friends, This issue that I am talking about is a very common issue that I have seen. I have, in my experience, seen many users experiencing this issue; yet, most people do not know how to troubleshoot or fix this issue. Moreover, I have seen this issue
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Hi Friends! This blog post is mainly to address concerns about increasing log file space, and how to go about to shrink the file. I am adding a priliminary content here as of now, but I will update this content as and when I get time and new content to
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Hi Friends! Recently I was asked to write a query that would us us know the sizes of all user tables in a database. Thought of sharing the script; this might be useful to people who would like to know the amount of space being used by each of the tables
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