SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer

... has been released yesterday as an independently serviceable tool.
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License type of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer

Hi everybody.
I need to install in my organization the software "SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer" but I need to know if this application it's free licensing. I have seen on several web sites about this tool it's free but not in official microsoft
web page. So, where can I find the official microsoft information about the type of licensing of "SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer" ?
Thanks of your support

Hello Erland.
I followed your advice and I have read the terms of use of this software. I stop at point 3 (which I highlighted). Based on this point, I doubt it is about using this application. Furthermore nowhere says that this software is free to use.
Would appreciate if someone can clarify this to me.
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MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005 BEST PRACTICES ANALYZER:
These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) and you.
Please read them. They apply to the software named above, which includes the media on which you received it, if any.
The terms also apply to any Microsoft
* updates,
* supplements,
* Internet-based services, and
* support services
for this software, unless other terms accompany those items.
If so, those terms apply.
BY USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THEM, DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE.
If you comply with these license terms, you have the rights below.
1.
INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. You may install and use any number of copies of the software on your devices.
2.
INTERNET-BASED SERVICES. Microsoft provides Internet-based services with the software.
It may change or cancel them at any time.
3.
SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software.
Microsoft reserves all other rights.
Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement.
In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways.
You may not
* work around any technical limitations in the software;
* reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;
* make more copies of the software than specified in this agreement or allowed by applicable law, despite this limitation;
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These laws include restrictions on destinations, end users and end use.
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SQL Server 2008 - Best Practices Analyzer

Is there a version of SQL Server 2008 Best Practices Analyzer available for download? If not, can I use BPA for SQL Server 2005 to run a DB assessment on a SQL Server 2008 database? Please let me know what your recommendation is?
Thanks

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer has been released for few months.
More details here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0fd439d7-4bff-4df7-a52f-9a1be8725591

SQL Server 2012 Best Practices

We are having a lively debate about how to configure our servers. One application per instance (1 or more databases) or mix applications in one instance. Can you give me some direction as to how to pursue this question? Thanks!

It depends on the applications.
If the application needs to be in isolated instance, so you have to go for multiple instances.
if the applications need different SQL Server configuration such collation etc. so you need to install separate instances.
If the applications have heavy tempdb usage, so may be you want to have separate tempdb on separate disks, and you need multiple instances.
If the applications have integrated security model with SQL Server ( which inherit from SQL Server security model ), so you need multiple instances.
SQL Server has very strong power to handle multiple databases and we have more that 500 database on one instance, but all of them need same SQL Server configuration ( same collation, memory, cpu, etc ).
If you buy these applications, so you can ask their vendor support team. Otherwise, if you write the applications, you can make this decision.
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Where is Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server 2014?

Hi! Does anyone have a news about new version of BPA for SQL Server?

Hi,
The latest version of Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server is SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer.
You can download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29302
I will update this thread when there is any update for SQL Server 2014 version.
Thanks.
Tracy Cai
TechNet Community Support

How to attached a sql server 2008 database on sql server 2005

Hi,
I have a backup of database designed over sql server 2008. I need to attacched this on a machine where sql server 2005 is installed and I am getting the message while attaching the database.
"The database can not be opened because it is version 661.
the server supports version 611 and earlier"

You need to install/have another instance of SQL Server 2008, restore over there the database and perhaps create a SSIS package to move objects and data into SQL Server 2005
Best Regards,Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP,
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SQL server Best Practice Analyzer output in .CSV

Hi Team, I ran SQL server Best practice analyzer on our SQL 2008 R2 server. I was trying to export scan result in .csv format but it is only giving me option to save it in .xml format. I have been looking for ways to export output in such a way
that it can be readable and I can send it to our clients but no luck.
How can I export SQL BPA output in .csv or any other user friendly format?
Thanks in Advance.

Hi MSRS27,
You can run Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) scans either from Server Manager, by using the BPA GUI, or by using cmdlets in Windows PowerShell. We can view or save BPA results from Windows PowerShell session in different format.
If you want to export BPA results to a comma-separated values (CSV) text file, run the following cmdlet, where Path represents the path and text file name to which you want to save the CSV results.
CSV results can be imported into Microsoft® Excel, or other programs that display data in spreadsheets or grids.
Get-BPAResultModel ID| Export-CSVPath
For more information, see: Run Best Practices Analyzer Scans and Manage Scan Results
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831400.aspx
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
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Server Core 2008 R2 SP1 - AD DS Best Practice Analyzer Scans Don't Produce Any Output

Hi,
This is a re-post moving this discussion to the recommended forum "Server Core" from here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/cc33d429-88e0-4450-a73c-361e395fd217.
I am having problems producing any output for any AD DS Best Practice Analyzer Scans on a Windows Server Core 2008 R2 SP1 Domain Controller.
I have imported the "ServerManager" and "BestPractices" PS modules on that Server by running the following commands:
Import-Module ServerManager
Import-Module BestPractices
I've then run
get-BPAModel, to find out what best practice scan models are availale, this returns the following output:
Id
LastScanTime
Microsoft/Windows/DirectoryServices     Never
Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer               Never
I then run all the BPA scans on that box:
Get-BPAModel | Invoke-BPAModel
This returns the following output:
ModelId
Success Detail
Microsoft/Windows/DirectoryServices True       (InvokeBpaModelOutputDetail)
Microsoft/Windows/DNSServer          True       (InvokeBpaModelOutputDetail)
Since the BPA invocation results weren’t displayed automatically, I entered the following command to see them:
Get-BPAModel | Get-BPAResult | Out-File "D:\Source\BPA.txt"
This command will create a text file with the scan results but I only see the results of the DNSServer scan, not the DirectoryServices scan.
I have also tried to view the results in a HTML format by running the following command but still only see the DNSServer scan results:
Get-BPAModel | Get-BPAResult | ConvertTo-Html | Set-Content d:\Source\BPA.htm
I have also tried exeucuting the scan ONLY for the "Microsoft/Windows/DirectoryServices" model but can't get any results to be returned. I have also connected using server manager from a Full install of Server 2008 R2 SP1 but that
doesn't seem to show any results under the "Best Practices Analyzer" section when the "Active Directory Domain Services" node is selected, all 4 tabs ("Noncompliant", "Excluded", "Compliant" and "All") show zero (0). However, the summary text above the
tabs does show when the last scan was performed. which seems to be correct.
Is there something special that needs to be done to produce the BPA results for the "Microsoft/Windows/DirectoryServices" BPA model on Server Core 2008 R2 SP1?
BTW: The Forest/Domain is W2K3R2 Native, this is the first W2K8R2 DC in the environment and I have installed .NET 4 framework (Server Core) to support Powershell 3, also installed.
Thanks, Paul.
belpad

Hi Diana,
OK, pretty sure I've now found the root cause of the issue I've described above.
I was also looking into Windows Update Agent issues for these W2K8R2 Server Core DC's, where no updates would be applied via WSUS (configured via GPO) and would fail with "FATAL: CBS called Error with 0x8000ffff windows update agent server
core".
Yesterday, I managed to get one of the W2K8R2 Server Core DC's (WSUS updates) working again by removing one of the .NET 4 Framework security updates (KB2600211) which was manually applied when the server was initially setup. .NET 4 (Server Core Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=22833) was installed as a pre-requisitie for Powershell 3. Once this update was removed, the affected server core DC was restarted and WSUS updates started to get applied.
So I followed the same procedure on the other server core DC but this did not resolve the WSUS issue this time.  Next, I did further investigation into the Windows Update Agent problem. This led me to the following article:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/brad_rutkowski/archive/2008/07/03/windows-update-fails-with-8000ffff-e-unexpected.aspx which described an issue with NTFS permissions being set incorrectly on C: drive, with the "BUILTIN\Users" group completely
missing on the C: drive.
I found the affected Server Core DC also had this issue and when the "BUILTIN\Users" was assigned permissions on the C: drive as described above, and the Windows Update Agent re-started, the Server Core DC started to install all required updates
configured via WSUS.
Next, I ran the Directory Service BPA, which now produces the desired output either locally or remotely via Server Manager.
Therefore, I can only assume that the Directory Service BPA also uses "Network Service" much like WUAUSERV (Windows Update Agent), which requires access to the C: drive via the "BUILTIN\Users" assignment.
So this has subsequently led me to check the C: drive (%systemdrive%) permissions across multiple W2K8R2 machines, all of which showed differing assigned permissions, as follows:
1. W2K8R2 Server Core DC - With Directory Services BPA and Windows Update Agent Not Working
C:\>icacls c:\
c:\ BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
    CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
    NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE:(OI)(CI)(RX)
    NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
2. W2K8R2 Server Core DC - With Directory Services BPA and Windows Update Agent Working OK
C:\>icacls c:\
c:\ NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
    BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
    BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(RX)
    BUILTIN\Users:(CI)(AD)
    BUILTIN\Users:(CI)(IO)(WD)
    CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
3. W2K8R2 Full DC - With Directory Services BPA and Windows Update Agent Working OK
C:\>icacls c:
c: NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller:(F)
   NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller:(CI)(IO)(F)
   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(M)
   NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
   BUILTIN\Administrators:(M)
   BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
   BUILTIN\Users:(RX)
   BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(IO)(GR,GE)
   CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
4. W2K8R2 Server Core DHCP Server (Migrated from W2K3 with Server Migration Tools) - With DHCP BPA and Windows Update Agent Working OK
C:\>icacls c:
c: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
   BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
5. W2K8R2 Server Core DHCP Server (Migrated from W2K3 with netsh) - With DHCP BPA and Windows Update Agent Working OK
C:\>icacls c:
c: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)
   BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)
   BUILTIN\Users:(OI)(CI)(RX)
   BUILTIN\Users:(CI)(AD)
   BUILTIN\Users:(CI)(IO)(WD)
   CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)
None of the above servers have a Group Policy or any in-house scripts defined that configure C: drive permissions. It seems odd that there should be such a variance in the C: (%systemdrive%) drive permissions across the above servers, with only
scenarios 2 and 5 above have matching permissions. I can only imagine that maybe some software or software update might be causing this.
By reviewing the above output, it seems there is also a difference between the C: drive permissions of W2K8R2 Server Core and W2K8R2 Full. Not sure if this is by design?
Is there any Microsoft Documentation describing what the default %systemdrive% NTFS permissions should be for W2K8R2 Server Core and Full. Furthermore, do these permissions change when the various infrastructure roles are installed and enabled i.e.
Domain Controller, DHCP etc. I ask, since I would like to use the correct set of permissions for %systemroot% in each scenario. Please advise if I should be asking this question in a different forum?
belpad

Lync2013 Best Practices Analyzer can not scan the edge server details

Hi All,
I encount one strange question that the Lync 2013 Best Practices Analyzer tool can find there's one edge server in the lync infrastructure when scanning, but the scan result does not display the edge server details as front end server (front end server can
scan all details like hardware CPU, fqdn and so on. But the edge server has not)
Anyone can help, much appreciated.
Elva

It seems a network issue.
You should check you have the proper network access to Lync Edge Server as Lync Edge Server is not in the same subnet of Lync Front End Server.
Lisa Zheng
TechNet Community Support

Best SQL Server 2005 books

Hi,
I am trying to determine a couple of books that will help me understand SQL Server 2005 from a few of perspectives:
Optimizing databases, specifically from SQL 2000 - I have a recommended book Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization
Developing SQL Server 2005 based applications using VIsual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 - I have been unable to narrow down to a specific book here. I learn best by example, so I was hoping for a book that basically goes through implementing a "real world" project from scratch to finish. I am going to be using the full-blown enterprise edition of SQL 2005, not the Express Edition; but a book that uses the Express Edition trumps any other book, I would be open to it. Any suggestions on such a book?
Understanding T-SQL and Stored Procedures from a SQL Server 2005 perspective -- Any suggestions? A book that spells out the differences from SQL 2000 would be an added advantage.
Thanks.

Have a look at Itzik Ben-Gan's book:
http://en.bookfi.org/g/Itzik%20Ben-Gan
Here the below, we have a good collection of books
http://www.onlinevideolecture.com/ebooks/it-ebooks/index.php?subject=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server

Comparing Oracle and MS SQL Server 2005

Hi!
I'm looking for documents which compare
features, price etc og the database and database related development-projects
I'm looking for resources that describe the terminology used of MS and Oracle for their db's.
I'm also looking for "Feuerstein"-best-practices in MS-world.
And at last I'm looking for simple and complex scenarios comparing performance/features of these db's.
And if possible, I want them from some "independent" sources...
Can anyone help?
Best regards
Bjorn Dorr Jensen

Hi Hans!
I think it would not be fair comparing Oracle 10g with SQL Server 2000.
So thats why I'm looking for comparison with SQL Server 2005,
but if you have something that compare Oracle 11 with SQL Server 2005,
let me hear about it :-)
The objective:
well, the last 2 years I worked with Oracle DB (tuning, pl/sql) in an serious manner.
and now I have to work with SQL Server (which I didn't work with the last 2 years),
so I'm interested in the differences.
For now it seems that many SQL Server features are primitive compared with Oracle, but Microsofts usability is much better.
O1.) But is it really more primitive or are I'm missing the nessessary experience with SQL Server? Thats some of the points I want to find out.
O2.) Analyzing our own requirements for features: when would it be better to use Oracle and when to use MS? How to make this measure-able?
Could one make an descision tree like:
when more than x users/day and clustering needed and db_size>y....
O3.) Should I promote in an environment with people only using MS-products,
promote the use of Oracle-DB? When will this be an good idea?
(I don't think it will be an good idea the other way around: moving from Oracle to MS SQL Server - or would it ;^)
Best Regards
Bjorn

Best Practice Analyzer database mismatch error

Hi all,
I am getting the following critical error when I run the BPA on a couple of our BizTalk servers and wondered if anyone had seen the same?
"The version of BizTalk Server does not Match the Version of BizTalk Management Database Schemas"
I am using v1.2 of BPA aagainst a BizTalk 2010 install.
This has only surfaced since we upgraded from BizTalk 2009 R2 BUT not on all of our environments.
It does not seem to be causing any runtime issues however as all applications seem to be running fine!!
Looking at the BizTalkDBVersion tables in SQL everything looks the same on servers which present this error and those that do not i.e. There is an entry for version 3.9.469.0 ... which matches the BizTalk Server version reported in the registry
at "\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0\Product Version\"
The only thing I can see is that as this was an upgrade there is also an entry in the
BizTalkDBVersion tables for the 2009R2 version (3.8.368.0), so maybe the BPA is selecting this value and comparing against the regisrty version?]
However, this doesn't explain why I see this issue on 2 upgraded servers but not the 3rd?
Any ideas?
Regards,
Dave

Hi Dave,
There is no version as BizTalk 2009 R2. v3.8.368.0 refers to BizTalk 2009 (not R2).
The above error occurred because BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer has detected that the version of BizTalk Server does not match the version of the BizTalk Database Schemas. This can happen if the BizTalk database was deleted and then restored
with an incorrect database.
Check the version of SQL Server upgraded against the version of BizTalk server.
Reference BPA Help file:
If this answers your question please mark it accordingly. If this post is helpful, please vote as helpful by clicking the upward arrow mark next to my reply.

Migration from SQL Server 2005 to Oracle 10g

Dear buddies,
I need to migrate my tables with data from SQL Server 2005 to Oracle 10g. How can I do it in the best possible way?
Please guide me.
Nith

Nith,
I doubt if there is one best practice that can cover all cases of migrating data from sql server to Oracle. l generally find various factors case-by-case that make me chose one approach over the other. Without considering the business case and environment specific factors, some of the things I would like to know would be: The data types of the tables columns, table sizes, number of tables and if this is a one time process or a recurring process.
One of the easiest (some times rather pesky) process would be:
-Dump source data (Sql Server data) into flat files, csv or any preferred format
-Setup a set of staging set of tables in the destination DB (Oracle in your case). You can setup the stage tables to enforce data-types, value sets and even some level of integrity constraints or any data logic or what ever you would like to filter out. Load the flat file data into a set of Oracle stage tables (Sql*Loader would be a good candidate)
-You can always move data from these stage tables to you application tables
You can script this whole process to run as batch or on demand or how ever you would like.
I am sure you can google and find a bunch of proprietary as well as open source tools to do the same with little to a lot of work.
good luck!

Size of SQL Server 2005 Database for SAP B1 2005 B is heavy

Hi all,
In my company we are working with SAP B1 2005 B SP 25.
Our Database is in SQL Server 2005. Its Size reaches 6 GB in less then two years periods.
Can Any body guide me to reduce the size or how to maintain database. Can we split Database in SAP B1 ?
Due to the size users getting less speed
Awaiting your valuable guidance for the same.
Best Regards,
Chintesh Soni

Hi Chintesh,
I would advise caution doing any of the things suggested in SAP Note 548772. In particular, I strongly recommend you do NOT set auto-shrink on. This is a really bad idea on a production database and I can't understand why SAP would suggest it.
Is it the data file that is 6GB or the overall size of the database (ie data and log files)? If your log file is large then this can slow performance. I recommend setting up transaction log backups on an hourly basis. This is good practice and not only keeps the log file healthy but also gives you the option to recover your data to the last transaction log backup in the case of an emergency. If you don't want transaction log backups then do as the SAP note mentions and set the recovery model to simple and do a once-off truncation of the log file.
Are you doing regular maintenance on the database (ie rebuilding indexes, updating statistics)? Are you monitoring fragmentation on the data drive and doing a defrag occasionally to keep the drive healthy?
Kind Regards,
Owen

DB upgrade ms sql server 2005 to sysbase

Hi Team,
I am in new to upgrade the db, going to db upgrade ms sql server 2005 to sysbase.
Give the screen shots step by step how to upgrade.and notes.Kindly help me.
Regards,
A.SITHANANDAN

Hi
This is Database migration from MS Sql to Sybae, So you have to refer the SAP System copy Heterogeneous method, Kindly refer the SAP links and Notes
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00f3087e-2620-2b10-d58a-c50b66c1578e?QuickLink=index&…
82478 - SAP system OS/DB migration
680803 - SYB: Migration to SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise - Best Practice
1591424 - SYB: NW 7.02 system copy with target SAP Sybase ASE
1554717 - SYB: Planning information for SAP on ASE
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Sriram

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