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When you have your business activities on the Internet then you have a major requirement to provide Business Continuity in finding the suitable/sustainable service provider. So I believe there are few key factors you need to consider such as the location
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Within the IT organisations it has been a huge expansion of increased challenges with regard to number of office locations and keep up the data consistent across the Enterprise. Travelling around the globe is a olden day myth and now even by sitting at
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Featured Web Seminar: SQL Consolidation: Insights from Customers, Analysts & HP On-Demand Combat SQL Server Sprawl - Inside Experiences & Best Practices Microsoft SQL Server has enjoyed phenomenal success as a database server. Its relatively low
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Like SQL Server Data, email is also an important aspect of day-to-day business life, more or less it is a business-critical communication tool, and downtime can be disastrous for your company. As like to the Disaster Recovery for your data, is your email
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Are you aware whether your Enterprise has legal compliance on Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA ? First off what you should know about legal compliance is when it comes to the compliance matter on almost every business person's mind, Sarbanes-Oxley, there's good
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When you think about effective data management, archiving will also play important role to manage your data. In this regard Windows Magazine has included best practices for your data management. Data privacy and identity theft have a higher profile in
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Security, whether it is for your home or systems you have to be very careful! Ed Gibson, Chief Cyber Security Advisor from Microsoft has articulated very nice article that will talk more about these aspects, we have had a brief meeting with Ed when I
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To provide High Availability feature within your database environment you could take advantage of Database Mirroring when using SQL Server 2005. As with all critical databases, minimizing data loss and downtime are of the highest importance. Having "AlwaysOn"
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Backup and restore practices are at the core of today's best business continuity plans. While backup and restore provides many benefits, it simultaneously presents a variety of challenges with lost data, the time it takes to restore data, and the costs
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Using SELECT @@VERSION statement you can get simply get information of SQL Server you are running , when connected to that SQL Server instance. What if to know same for the Analysis Services components, we don't have such an easy way to find out! I mean
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Managing software licenses is a difficult job that is only going to get more complicated. Most organizations today face a number of serious challenges in this arena, from the complexity of vendor licensing models , to cost overruns, to missed deadlines,
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As a DBA you might have come across this situation where you have forgotten the sa password for SQL Server - so what can you do? If you are experienced with such situation then definetly you might have an alternative solution to keep the passwords in
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What if I told you to take your latest production backup, restore it on a different machine and try using the database? Are you comfortable with that task? Do you think it will work? When was the last time you tested your backups? Denis Gobo has listed
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What happens if your business critical systems are unavailable for hours or even days? Events like recent hurricane seasons, the record tornado outbreaks in the Midwest, and the record rainfall in the West have heightened attention for preparedness and
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Have you ever wondered what could be the Disaster Recovery (DR) options available for SQL Server. In the documentation terms: Disaster recovery is a process that you can use to help recover information systems and data, if a disaster occurs. Some examples
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