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Migrating from one Cluster to Another (Polyserve to Microsoft)
Migrating from one cluster technology to another or even with-in the same technology is fairly easy. Recently I'm run into an issue where we need to migrate a SQL Server Instance from a HP Polyserve Cluster to a Microsoft Cluster. There were two issues I found in setting this ...
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SQL Server Security, not where it needs to be ?
SQL Server security, logins, auditing and reporting still not where it needs to be ? Maybe someone can help me with ideas, if so email, me or leave me some comments. I've been through a lot of requirements and implementing everything the information security group wants is like Macgyver with ...
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SQL Server: Network packet size difference between returning XML and TDS
A while back I was thinking about SQL Server’s capabilities of returning data as XML with FOR XML and it occurred to me that maybe returning 10.000 results as xml would be faster that the way SQL server returns them now in Tabular Data Stream (TDS). After 10 seconds I ...
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How do -You- use SQL Server
I’ve been tagged by a misplaced yankee, uh, New Englander, whatever. The question is, how do I/we use SQL Server where I work. That’s a tough one. It would make a much shorter, and easier, blog post to describe the things we don’t use it for ...
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Comparison: Switching Tables vs. sp_rename
Takeaway: Stick with sp_rename and leave the ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement for partitions. Earlier in the month I was at a talk given by Don Vilen called To Partition or Not To Partition The questions .. and the answers. In the talk he gave an interesting tip about switching partitions. ...
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