Category Archives for "SQL Administration"

SQL 2016 SSMS Download Location

By SQLRx Admin | Installation , SQL Administration , SQL Server

Now that SQL Server 2016 has been released (https://blog.sqlrx.com/2016/06/01/sql-server-2016-rtm-available/ ), DBA’s are going to notice that the Management Studio tools are not in the list of options to install. Starting in SQL 2016, SSMS is a separate download and install. You can find the download at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt238290.aspx The install notes say that it can be […]

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Load Windows Event Log Errors into a SQL Table

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Windows

–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Part of being a proactive DBA is to get information on what is going on at the server level as well as at the SQL level. We know that the Windows Event logs are around but I find that not many DBA’s check them regularly. You can make this easier by […]

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Database Mail Error – SQL Server

By Ginger Daniel | Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server

–By Ginger Keys Database Mail is a feature of SQL Server that sends email from the SQL Server database engine to SMTP servers. It can be used to notify administrators when events happen in SQL server, such as job failures, failover notifications, or any other event deemed important in your environment. You can also use […]

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@@SERVERNAME Returns Old Name or NULL

By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— by Ginger Keys   Recently a client of mine moved their production SQL Server Cluster to a new physical environment. When the time came to ‘go-live’ with the new environment, the client wanted the new SQL cluster name and IP address (SQLCLUSTERTEMP) to be renamed to the original, legacy name and IP address (SQLCLUSTER). […]

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SSISDB Benefits and Configuration

By Lori Brown | Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server

Lots of people are using the SSIS catalog database, SSISDB, for SSIS packages. Actually, using the SSIS catalog is best practice but there are still some shops that use File System Packages. These shops should really consider migrating to the SSIS catalog. Some benefits are: Versioning: Version history is kept allowing developers to see list […]

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March 2016 Tip of the Month -Full Text Indexing – Clean up those log files!

By SQLRx Admin | Advice , Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

If you have Full Text catalogs set up in your databases you may notice that inside your log folder there will be lots of files named SQLFTxxxxxxxxxxxx.LOG. These are known as crawl logs which are designed to log information on the full text indexing. These logs can really pile up and there is no automated […]

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Dynamic Data Masking – SQL Server 2016

By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

–by Ginger Keys Dynamic Data Masking is a SQL Server 2016 feature that can be deployed as part of your overall security strategy. Data masking is not intended as a primary security solution, but provides a way to obfuscate or hide characters in data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, and […]

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SQL Connections – Finding what fixed port SQL is listening on

By Lori Brown | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— by Lori Brown  @SQLSupahStah While trying to add a database to an existing AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG), I was having difficulty making a connection from the primary replica to the secondary replica. The availability group was functioning but as I tried to add a database to it, my connection to the secondary replica was […]

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Repair Suspect Database – SQL Server

By Ginger Daniel | Expert , SQL Administration , SQL Server

– -by Ginger Keys Occasionally mistakes happen, things get deleted, or hardware fails. Your end users may be complaining that the application is not working or pulling up any data… or you may open SQL Management Studio and see that the database is simply unavailable. What happened!? I have encountered a situation where an inexperienced […]

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