The following table describes the editions of SQL Server. SQL Server Editions Features Enterprise The premium offering, SQL Server Enterprise edition delivers comprehensive high-end datacenter capabilities with blazing-fast performance, unlimited virtualization, and end-to-end business intelligence – enabling high service levels for mission-critical workloads and end user access to data insights. Standard SQL Server Standard edition... » read more
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Symptoms When you use Data Definition Language (DDL) to modify a table, and then you try to save the table in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you may receive the following message: Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made... » read more
Utility Explorer works inside of Management Studio, so it uses the same familiar interface that you already know. In Management Studio, to switch to the Utility Explorer, go up to the View menu, and then click on Utility Explorer. Using the SQL Server Utility application, they can gather information about the status, health and performance... » read more
The SQL Server Activity Monitor gathers information about the monitored instance and displays the data in a series of collapsible panes. Right Click Server -> Activity Monitor The Activity Monitor is split up into a couple of different panes. Overview Processes Resource Waits data file input output Recent expensive queries Active expensive queries
Waits Waits occur when system resources are busy processing other tasks, and new tasks are placed into a holding queue until resources free up. Locks on data are the only reason a task will encounter a wait. Bottlenecks and hardware resources are also common contributors to a task having to wait before proceeding. A dynamic... » read more
As we know that, in order to maintain consistency in a database, it follows ACID properties. Among these four properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability) Isolation determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems. It means that a transaction should take place in a system in such a way that it is... » read more
SQL Server supports both implicit and explicit transactions. Implicit transactions are initiated when the system’s session option “Implicit Transactions” is set to ON. In this state, any of a number of commands, including Create, Insert, Update, Delete, Drop, and Select will automatically begin a new transaction. To finalize the transaction, the user must specifically issue... » read more
When two or more users access the same tables at the same time, they’re considered concurrent users. If the operations that they are performing are simple reads, then SQL Server can easily accommodate both users simultaneously. But once one or more users begin updating and inserting records into a table that someone else is reading,... » read more
If your database design calls for the immigration of files such as audio, images or other document types, then you’ll want to investigate the SQL Server feature called Filestream. In the past, immigrating a database with unstructured binary data files meant providing links to their location on the disk drive. This is not an ideal... » read more