If you are a production Database Administrator (DBA), you might be lucky and have all your servers on the same revision of SQL Server. This is a very uncommon situation since many third party vendors do not keep up with Microsoft releases or your company might not find the return on investment (ROI) for having the lastest software. My company falls into the later category. We have some business applications that are bound to SQL Server 2000. Since it is not broken, the company is not willing to fix it.…
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Database Files & Objects – Part 1
I am currently reading Kalen Delany and others book on SQL Server 2008 System internals. If you have not read this book from cover to cover, you should. It has a wealth of knowledge about database engine details. To demonstrate key ideas from the book, I am going to expand on the [MATH] database that contains PRIME numbers. The trial division algorithm inside this database uses a brute force method for calculating prime numbers. This article will focus on files and objects that can be viewed through the system views,…