May 12, 2001

It is especially important to correctly set Windows NT4’s Server service in “Application Server” mode to ensure that the Server service doesn’t absorb all the available hardware resources while providing network services for file management. As its name suggests, when in “Application Server” mode, resources are managed in a way

The indexing schema plays a fundamental role in performance tuning, and tools such as the Index Tuning Wizard that can suggest efficient schemas on the grounds of a database usage. Once the indexing schema has been completed, you should document it in order to know which tables have primary keys,

At times a database appears to be marked as “suspect” in the Enterprise Manager. SQL Server marks a database as suspect with it can’t access the database. What happens at a low level is that SQL Server sets one of the bits in the status field in the sysdatabases table.

Using the sp_user_counterX stored procedure (where X is a number between 1 and 10) you can set internal SQL Server counters. This values are read by the Performance Monitor, the standard Windows utility that monitors system activity. The Performance Monitor is able to monitor not only the activities like these,

This article explains how you can create a Microsoft Word document from T-SQL and fax it through a method exposed by its Automation object model. You can create and destroy OLE Automation object using the sp_OACreate and sp_OADestroy, whereas you can use the sp_OAMethod to invoke a method, and the