Automating DBA Processes for Microsoft SQL Server
Want to save time, reduce errors, get things done without you doing them and standardize preventative maintenance of your SQL Server environment? Simple – automate your important database administration tasks. No matter how big or small your SQL Server environment, you’ll benefit from automation.
At a recent PASS Summit gathering, a group of SQL Server experts discussed best practices for automating database administration processes and activities. This Quest white paper highlights the best parts of this discussion. Download it today.
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8/27/2010
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Did You Know? It’s Easy to Simplify SQL Server Management: Helpful SQL Server Tips: A Quest E-book
Optimizing SQL Server performance isn’t easy. There’s a lot of information about solving performance problems, but not much about the specifics – let alone how to adapt the answers to your environment!
But did you know getting peak performance from your SQL Server environment CAN be easy? It can – if you’ve got the right tips and tricks! In this free e-Book, get the information you need – straight from the experts – to ensure SQL Server quality, performance and availability.
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8/27/2010
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Developing Something for Nothing with SQL Server: A Closer Look at SQL Server Express and How it Can Work for You
In this new Quest Software technical brief, learn about SQL Server Express – Microsoft’s free version of SQL Server – and how this full-featured solution can be readily used on desktops and servers alike. Learn about the flexibility, power and scalability of this exceptional no-cost software, and how it can often meet your initial development and deployment needs. Read this white paper today.
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8/27/2010
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Why and How You Should Find and Fix Index Fragmentation
In a high-volume database you need frequent critical maintenance. If you skip this important task, index fragmentation may cause wasted space, inefficient I/O and poor performance.
In this new Quest Software white paper, learn exactly what index fragmentation is, how it occurs, how to find it and what to do to fix it. Don’t wait until poor performance cripples your databases. Maximize your SQL Server environment. Read this white paper today.
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8/27/2010
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Data Protection: Evaluating Your Business Requirements & Classifying Your Data
The business of business is business, not IT. Your data protection practices, like your other business practices, should be aimed at managing your business assets because a simple analysis of your data can produce extraordinary results. This paper discusses an approach to evaluating data at a business level, and implementing a data protection strategy that safeguards your organization based on the value of its data.
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8/4/2010
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Evaluating Deduplication Solutions: What You Should Really Consider
Understand deduplication, and how it can be implemented - single instance storage (SIS) vs deduplication, fixed vs. variable block, inline vs post-process, source vs target-side, and ratios and retention periods.
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8/4/2010
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VIDEO WHITEPAPER - How to Avoid Downtime - VIDEO WHITEPAPER
In this Experts & Insights video, we take a close-up look at the data protection challenges and solutions surrounding downtime, a major concern for IT professionals, especially as it affects email, databases and file servers. Stephen Wynkoop, SQL Server Worldwide User Group founder & editor, and other technical experts such as Arun Taneja and Dennis Martin offer sound advice on data protection.
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7/20/2010
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eBook: Oracle Performance Tuning with Solid State Disk by Mike Ault
The book is written by Oracle expert, Mike Ault, with contributions from Jamon Bowen, Joe Bromley, and Matt Key, all experts on Solid State Disk (SSD). The increasing popularity of Solid State Disk (SSD) is challenging DBAs to adapt their database performance tuning methodologies in order to optimize application performance and return on investment. This new book delivers up to the minute, practical guidance that empowers DBAs to target SSD technology to those database areas that will benefit most.
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6/22/2010
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Improve I/O Performance: Top 7 Benefits to Solid State Disk Storage
Application performance can be finicky. One day an application is slowed by network latencies; another day it can be impacted by processor limits and, when everything else is going smoothly I/O bottlenecks pop up as more users make the application work harder. Solving performance problems and I/O bottlenecks can be a challenging task. While there are many approaches to reducing I/O bottlenecks few are cost effective, read more.
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6/22/2010
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