By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Ginger Keys Once upon a time there was an organization that depended on very accurate data entry rules. For various reasons, some of the employees who were responsible for inputting and updating records were not very diligent about following rules to keep the data clean and uniform, reasoning that IT would go behind […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Development , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah While Try-Catch has been around since SQL 2005, you would be surprised at how infrequently applications and SQL programmers use this to handle errors. Since I also write my own maintenance and monitoring code and jobs that has to be deployed to my clients, I started making an effort to […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
The SQL dedicated administrator connection(DAC) has been around since SQL 2005 and is a diagnostic connection that is designed to allow an administrator to troubleshoot SQL Server when the instance is having problems. Only members of the sysadmin role can connect using the DAC. You can connect using the DAC both through SQLCMD (SQLCMD –A […]
Continue readingBy Jeffry Schwartz | Advice , Intermediate , Performance Tuning , SQL Development , SQL Server
-by Jeffry Schwartz Queries with multiple join clauses create particularly difficult issues when they perform poorly. Join ordering is extremely important because if a join creates a huge interim result set at the beginning of the query execution, SQL Server must continue to handle this result set until it can be trimmed down with filtering […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah After reading up on AlwaysOn Monitoring and Alerting (http://blog.sqlrx.com/2015/08/27/alwayson-monitoring-and-alerting/), I was asked to come up with a way to automatically enable jobs that may only need to run on the primary replica of an availability group. Requirements were that on failover of an AlwaysOn Availability Group some jobs should be […]
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