>Collation settings define the physical storage of character strings in SQL Server. It specifies the bit patterns that represent each character and the rules by which characters are sorted and compared. Collation settings have a direct impact on the databases if you configure them to use a different collation other than the default. When you […]
>One thing I realized is that SQL Server port numbers will not be the same for I don’t know what reason. I found this out while rebuilding a SQL Server named instance. We had standard settings in setting up SQL Server. But since I am rebuilding my test environment, I just used the default port […]
>When you deploy Windows Mobile on an Exchange environment, one of the things that you may want to configure is remote wipe. This will enable administrators to wipe the device over-the-air. This is very helpful in cases where a Windows Mobile device is lost or stolen and you want to simply protect company-related data like […]
>If you search for information about the DBCC PAGE command, the only Microsoft official document you’ll find refers to a SQL Server version older than v7. One blog post I found was from Paul Randall of the SQL Server Storage Engine Team which explains how to use DBCC PAGE in conjunction to using DBCC CHECKDB. […]
Transaction Log Shipping is a disaster recovery (sometimes called data recovery) option in SQL Server where you generate transaction log backups in the source database, copy them over to a remote SQL Server instance and restore them in read-only, standby mode. This feature is available in Enterprise Edition for SQL Server 2000 while SQL Server […]