To prevent and diagnose availability, health, and performance issues it is essential to review and manage the configuration of SQL Server instances and databases. Whether you want to view and modify ...

Enter an instance ID for each of the named instances you are installing. Microsoft SQL uses the instance ID, rather than the instance name, to create data directories.

We are in the process of planning our upgrade to DPM 2010 in the next month or so. Just was curious if there was any advantage/disadvantage to installing the SQL Database locally or creating ...