Muthusamy Anantha Kumar

SQL Server database administrators often deploy object changes, such as table, procedure, trigger etc., on the production system. Usually when they do, they check for dependencies, just to make sure that those changes are not going to break the system. This article examines how to find most of the possible dependencies and generate a script […]

This article demonstrates the CPU Utilization of any SQL Server box by taking advantage of WMI and VBScript in order to find under utilized Servers. It is important to know which Servers use more CPU and during what period of time, to help the SQL Server database administrator to load balance. Pre-requisite 1.  Make sure […]

SQL Server Database administrators often copy(refer Fig 1.0) huge files, such as Full backup files and transaction log backup files from production to QA or from production to development environment and so on. Sometimes they need to copy source data files for importing. If they want to restore those Full backups or transaction log backup […]

Collaboration Data Objects, also called CDO, is designed to simplify writing programs that create or manipulate Internet messages. CDO for Windows 2000 is an integral part of the Windows 2000 and higher series of operating systems. It is easy to send SMTP email from SQL Server using CDOsys. It is an alternate method to SQLMail. […]

When installing SQL Server, regardless of versions and editions, SQL Server database administrators tend to choose the default collation and sort-order, which is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. Though case insensitiveness makes the life of the database developers and database administrator’s easy, there are situations where case sensitivity should be enforced just as password checking is enforced. In this […]

SQL Server database administrators are often faced with hundreds of emails and pages when all of the SQL Servers are scheduled for rebooting. In some organizations, the reboot cycles are performed on a weekly basis and in some organizations, the reboot cycles are performed on a monthly basis. If there are few SQL Servers on […]

When transactional replication is used for high availability purposes, such as if you want the applications to access the replicated server when the primary database server fails, one of the hurdles SQL Server database administrators face when configuring replication is tables with identity columns. In this article, I am going to discuss how to customize […]

Active/Passive SQL Server 2000 clustering gives more reliability and fault tolerance to Production SQL Server environments. When a failure occurs, all of the resources fail over from the active node to the passive node and make the passive node active. This article explains how to rebuild the node that failed and attach it back to […]

Many Enterprises create and maintain applications that reside on “IBM Lotus Domino Server.” Since the Lotus Domino server has the capability of handling applications and messaging, it has become a prime requirement for a SQL Server DBA to cross- reference data or import and export data to and from the Domino database and SQL Server […]

When a DBA is managing many different SQL Server boxes, it can be a tedious job to find the port numbers used by all of the SQL Servers. In this article, I would like to discuss several methods for finding the Port numbers used by SQL Server. Method 1 In method one, we are going […]

Most organizations have a system of weekly reboots or monthly reboots etc., for all their servers. When it comes to clustered servers, the reboot cycle would be little different. Usually the active node in the cluster will always be active, unless there is a failover initiated manually or when there is a hardware failure etc. […]

Automatic file growth in SQL Server data and log files made the SQL Server Database Administrator’s life easier, since the transaction log is not filled; it expands automatically based on the percentage settings [refer Fig 1.0]. However, this feature introduced the crisis of the hard disk running out of space, since the transaction log expands […]