Category Archives for "SQL Maintenance"

Sep 03

Tip of the Month: WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY option for Index Rebuilds

By Lori Brown | SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

— By Lori Brown  @SQLSupahStah Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition since can only be done using ONLINE rebuilds. Index rebuilds have been enhanced with the WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY option. It is used to set the duration in minutes to wait as well as behavior when blocking happens. When setting WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY you also must set MAX_DURATION […]

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Sep 07

September 2010 Tip of the Month

By SQLRx Admin | Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

Performance Monitor: Monitor the performance counters SQLServer:Buffer Manager (Page reads/sec) and SQLServer:Buffer Manager (Page writes/sec) to detect poor performance. These counters measure physical IOs and not logical IOs. Heavy activity can indicate lack of database memory, a poor table implementation or can show that applications are not accessing a database correctly. Monitoring these counters will […]

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