Articles Archive for March 2011
Backing up servers has never been easy, but at least in the past you could say that the process was trivial. These days though, with the introduction of virtualization into server environments, it’s apparent that …
SQL Azure Performance Tuning is a much tougher task than SQL Server, – SQL Azure lacks some of the basic tools available to SQL Server DBA’s. There really isn’t too much to do tuning your …
Problem
When using transactional replication to replicate data in a one way topology from a publisher to a read-only subscriber(s) there is no need to manage identity ranges. However, when using transactional replication to replicate data …
Introduction
Database Administrators have always had a tough time to ensuring that all the SQL Servers administered by them are configured according to the policies and standards of organization. Using SQL Server’s Policy Based Management feature …
Adding a column to a table is common task for DBAs. You can add a column to a table which is a nullable column or which has default values. But are these two operations are …
When an Exchange 2010 mailbox has been disabled it becomes a disconnected mailbox. Disconnected mailboxes sit in the mailbox database until the configured retention period has lapsed, and then they are purged.
You can see the …
Your Exchange Server mail queue contains all outgoing email messages that are intended for delivery outside of your server. All messages are held as files in a directory as configured by administrators. Unfortunately, sometimes the …
An Internet Explorer flaw made public two months ago is now being used in online attacks. The flaw, which has not yet been patched, has been used in "limited, targeted attacks," Microsoft said in an …
Microsoft Windows 7 comes with a significant performance improvement than his predecessor Windows Vista, but if you want to get from it the best performance you should tweak it a bit more to eliminate resource …
