While the Microsoft reference may say that you should keep the operating system the same, it seems hard to believe that there aren’t situations where one would decide to bypass this recommendation. If you are sitting on Windows 2003 x86 with SQL Server 2000 x86 and you have the option to go to Windows 2008 [...]
After reading through the SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide, you should have a good idea about which direction you want to move forward. The upgrade path and upgrade method will help you modify your plan so that you have the best chance to succeed. Depending on your environment, your choices may already be [...]
This is part one in a series of upgrading from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. The first question I want to address is why would you want to upgrade in the first place. It’s important to know why you are doing something if you are going to be able to truly understand what [...]
For those of us that are still in situations where we deal primarily with SQL Server 2000, there should come a time when we have to run the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor. Some of you may be going straight to SQL Server 2008 and this issue may be resolved in the SQL Server [...]
Whenever it comes time to install SQL Server to a server it’s usually not a big deal to walk back to the server with the disc or share my drive across the network. I ran into a different situation this weekend when I needed to install several versions on a server while on a vpn [...]
In the past, we’ve run into issues with contention and the -T1118 flag, hotfix 2040, and multiple tempdb files that led me to go ahead and put this info out there if nothing more than for my future reference. I ran into a machine today that had the tempdb files in the wrong location. They [...]
Pinal Dave asks a question about server-wide configuration values regarding 2005 and 2008, but I thought I would add the ones for 2000 in case noone else did. Hopefully I got the pertinent info.
From my understanding, it is only necessary for me to discuss SQL Server versions later than SQL Server 2000. I include SQL Server 2000 because the truth is that many people are still using this product. I know that the shop I work in has mostly SQL Server 2000 instances and a couple of SQL [...]
I was checking out a new contact I made on Twitter, which I was convinced I should use by Brent Ozar, and Marlon’s post on a free eBook made me think back to some other great finds that I’ve seen on Red Gate. If someone thinks of any others please feel free to post. Best [...]
I had an admin come to me this morning regarding a SQL Server box that had suddenly gone down. The SQL Service and SQL Agent where both stopped. When I looked at the SQL Server error log I noticed the following error: “SqlSecurityHandler is invoked. Potential buffer overrun detected – server is terminating.” I went [...]