I don't see reason to update statistics for newly created Indexes but for old indexes though not needed I have seen much performance enhancements when executed update statistics tablename with...

Only option to this is restart MSSQLSERVER services.

http://bisqlserver.blogspot.com/2006/11/migrating-your-sql-2000-dts-packages.html

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1224

Follow this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240867

After restoring database from 2000 to 2005 which had a full text catalog. you have to rebuild FTC again on the new server (2005). It won't get created by...

Toss, is right. DBCC...

Instead of taking full backup, take log file backup and try to shrink it. 99.99% of times you would be able to shrink log file after taking log file...

If you see the property of this procedure sp_MScheck_uid_owns_anything, does it shows the owner as old user or new?

Follow this link.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275312

extractor.exe -R extract

[-?]

[

[-F sqllitespeed_backup_file]

[-E base_file_name]

[-N file_number]

[-K encryption_key]

[-L 0|1|2 ]

[-I]

]

Select Simple if:

* Your data is not critical.

* Losing all transactions since the last full or differential backup is not an issue.

...

I did this differently for a table holding 1.26 billion records. Deleting these many records would take long time or may be it would have never got completed. As...

right click on sql server agent and then in job systems define a greater value. By default its 1000. if you have enough space in your server then you...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/sqlupgrd.mspx

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/installingandupgradingtosqlserver2005/1943/

http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid87_gci1194265,00.html

If this helps.

DECLARE @dbname sysname

SET @dbname = DB_NAME()

SELECT CONVERT(char, backup_start_date, 111) AS [Date], --yyyy/mm/dd format

CONVERT(char, backup_start_date, 108) AS [Time],

@dbname AS [Database Name], [filegroup_name] AS [Filegroup Name],...

My environment had both the options you had mentioned. I feel more comfortable with SQL Backup software's be it Litespeed or SQL safe. SQL Safe is a bit...