DTS Drawbacks
Dec 26, 2006I am trying to compile a case of why DTS packages need to be migrated to SSIS packages. Is there any document, whitepaper which can provide me drawbacks in DTS?
Thanks,
Vijay.
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Mar 5, 2008What is the answeof this ?
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Apr 14, 2008Hi,
I've never really used the SQLDatasource, I usually fill a dataset & use that. When would you use an SQLDatasource? I notice it doesn't return dataviews but I also noticed that you don't need to open the conenction. Any ideas on best practice?
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Benefits/drawbacks With NVarChar(max)
Feb 15, 2006Hi,
I wonder if there are any drawbacks with NVarChar(max) contra e.g. NVarChar(40) when it comes to performance and amount of storage used?
Are there other arguments to use e.g. NVarChar(40) than that you have more control of how long the strings are when you set the upper limit?
I'm using Sql Server 2005.
Tomsi
AWE/Lock Page In Memory Drawbacks? Min/Max Settings, Memory Issues
Oct 11, 2007I've been researching AWE to determine if we should enable this for our environment.
Currently we have a quad core box with 4 gb of RAM (VMware). OS: Windows 2003 std, SQL Server 2005 std. 3GB is not set but will be as soon as we can perform maintenance on the server.
I have read mixed feedback on AWE, either it works great or grinds you to a hault. I would assume that the grinding to a hault is due to not setting the min/max values correctly or not enabling the lock page in memory setting.
We only have one instance of SQL on the server and this box won't be used for anything else aside from hosting SQL services. We do plan on running SSRS off of this server as well.
1. Will running SSRS and enabling AWE cause me problems? Will I have to reduce the max setting by the SSRS memory usage or will it share and play nice?
2. How do I go about setting the Max value? Should it be less than the physical RAM in the box? Right now its set to the default of 214748364, even if I don't enable AWE should this default value be changed?
3. It seems that even at idle the SQL server holds a lot of memory and the page file grows. If I restart the process in the morning, memory usage in taskmon is at 600mb or so. By the end of the day, its up around 2gb. How can I track down whats causing this, should this even concern me?
4. The lock Page in memory setting worries me. Everything I've read on this seems to give a warning about serious OS and other program support degradation. In some cases to the point where they have to restore the settings on the server before they can bring it back up. What are your thoughts on this.