By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server
— by Ginger Keys SQL Server AlwaysOn provides a fairly robust environment for disaster recovery; however you can never be too careful when it comes to technology and protecting your data. Regular maintenance routines (i.e. backups, etc.) need to be set up and performed on an ongoing basis, even when you have your databases in […]
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–by Ginger Keys AlwaysOn Availability Groups made its debut in SQL Server 2012 as a new feature that enhanced the existing technologies of database mirroring and failover clustering to provide an option for high availability and disaster recovery. AlwaysOn gives you the ability to scale out several secondary Servers (replicas) for high availability or […]
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–by Ginger Keys Recently I had a client who, after speaking with their software vendor, became overly fearful of their database log files growing too big and taking up all of the disk space on their server. The software vendor is apparently used to having clients that don’t have a DBA on staff, and made […]
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–by Ginger Keys Have you ever watched performance metrics in Performance Monitor (Perfmon) and wondered which SQL Server activities were causing those spikes? SQLRx offers a Microsoft Partner-of-the-Year award-winning service that will correlate all performance metrics on your server with very little overhead, and will pinpoint with precision, right down to a line of code […]
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–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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— 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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–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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– -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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— 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 […]
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