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The Microsoft SQL Server Storage Solution Review Program is a specific SQL Server program that enables storage solution providers to highlight those storage solutions and configurations, via the SQL Server “Always On” labeling, that they have successfully reviewed against core functional Microsoft SQL Server storage requirements. The core requirements defined herein must be met for reliable, highly available SQL Server storage systems.
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As platforms continue to evolve in the technology industry, a central concern for IT executives is implementing the right systems to maximize the return on their investments. Since labor costs dominate most IT budgets, selecting platforms with lower implementation and on-going management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency, and allow for the reallocation of resources from basic maintenance and operations to more innovative functions. In this paper, Alinean, an independent IT value analyst firm, examines the Total Cost of Administration (TCA) for two of the industry’s leading database management offerings from Microsoft Corp. and Oracle®.
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Questions and Answers for the new Open Source FDO Provider for Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 Database Software
Autodesk FDO Data Access Technology (FDO) addresses the need for openness and interoperability between traditional geographic information system (GIS) applications and mainstream operational information technology (IT) systems, as well as integration with public or private web mapping services. Incorporated into Autodesk® Geospatial products, and also available as a stand-alone, open source technology for developers, FDO helps increase productivity and save time by enabling users to work on a variety of spatial and non-spatial databases and file formats natively, without the need for translation and risk of data loss.
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Microsoft Corporation faced a gap in delivering accurate, timely, & easily consumable information to its sales force community. Sales force data was stored in SQL Server 2000 databases on multiple source systems including Siebel CRM. Those divergent data sources contained different aspects of sales data such as sale quotas in the incentive compensation system and sales opportunity information in the Siebel CRM system. Having the data in separate databases prevented the information from being utilized to its full potential.
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Configuration best practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4000 and HP blade servers is a best practices paper that leverages HP servers, storage, and management software by providing the recommended best practices for configuration of an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage subsystem deployed into a Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 environment with HP servers. Additionally, sizing and performance data based on the tested reference configuration is presented. The paper covers guidelines for a total end-to-end deployment of Microsoft SQL Server, encompassing servers, storage, management software, and offline full database backup practices.
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One of the most popular applications is Microsoft Office Access since it doesn’t require considerable computer knowledge and skills to deal with. Microsoft Access is a relational database management system (DBMS) that provides an effective set of tools that make organizing, accessing, and sharing information easier than ever.Along with actual strengths MS Access has storage management limitations so it is usually used as a personal or single-user application, mostly for managing limited quantity of data.
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This whitepaper explains the key differences between Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 databases and Oracle databases. It compares SQL Server and Oracle database architecture and provides information on the newest features in SQL Server 2005. This paper is intended for Oracle professionals who want to leverage their Oracle knowledge to manage SQL Server or prepare to migrate an Oracle database to SQL Server 2005. Other topics discussed in this white paper include backups, database security, management options and high availability options.
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The purpose of this guide is to walk DeskScapes users through steps to diagnose why animated wallpaper will not apply. There are key pieces that DeskScapes requires must be working in order for animated wallpaper to apply.
1. MPEG-2 Video Codec (for video dreams to work)
2. DirectX9 (D3D) must be installed (for dynamic dreams to work)
3. Desktop Window Manager (DWM) must be running (for any dream to work)
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Progress® DataXtend™ Remote Edition and Microsoft® SQL Server™ both provide a set of replication tools for copying, distributing, and synchronizing data from one database to another. DataXtend RE (Remote Edition) provides the most comprehensive and flexible replication and synchronization tools available for software developers and enterprise IT departments to make their applications mobile and available both on-line and off-line. While SQL Server replication technology can be used for replicating data for reporting, backup and recovery, or mobile applications, its features are better suited for non-mobile, non-distributed/connected applications.
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VMware® VirtualCenter uses a database to store metadata on the state of a VMware Infrastructure environment. Performance statistics and their associated stored procedure operations constitute the largest and the most resource‐intensive component of the VirtualCenter database. Hence the performance of your VirtualCenter database depends upon the frequency at which you collect performance statistics and the level of detail of the statistics you store. VirtualCenter 2.5 features a number of enhancements that are aimed at greatly improving the performance and scalability of the performance statistics operations in the VirtualCenter database.
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