By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQL Toolkit
It is pretty common that I frequently am asked to take over a server with SQL on it sight unseen. Many times shops many not be fully aware if additional instances are or have been installed on their server. Since I am working on a set of scripts that we can use for discovery on […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQL Toolkit
We recently were troubleshooting an issue where one client reported that the SQL instance was suddenly very slow. One of the things we do is check to see what queries are currently running in SQL by using the following query: — Finds info on queries that are running NOW SELECT GETDATE() AS CurrentTime, SUBSTRING(text, CASE […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQL Toolkit
–By Lori Brown I am going to start up a thread with some queries that I consider to be important to DBA’s. As a consultant, many times we have to start managing SQL instances without any knowledge of why it has been configured in various ways. We usually try to work with our clients to […]
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