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Lori is an avid runner, cross fitter and SQL enthusiast. She has been working for SQLRX for 15 years and has been working with SQL in general for 25 years. Yup...she is an old hand at this stuff.

Jun 12

Stop Jobs That Run Too Long

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Jobs , SQL Administration , SQL Server

Since I seem to run across lots of questions about how to make sure that no jobs get in the way of ETL or other stressful data loads, I thought that I should post some ways you can stop jobs. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-stop-job-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16 I have always done this by having a monitoring job that executes on a […]

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Apr 11

Replication Slow at Subscriber Due to Missing Indexes

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Indexes , Replication , SQL Server

Problem Have you ever had transactional replication mysteriously start showing significant latency at a subscriber server?  If so, check to see if the primary keys from the publisher database are missing on the subscriber database! Replication was showing long latency while the publisher and subscriber servers were not heavily utilized.  Microsoft generated stored procedures that […]

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Oct 12

Using Extended Events to Find Statement Causing a Job to Run Long or Hang

By Lori Brown | Extended Events , Helpful Scripts , Jobs , Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Server

On one of the servers that we monitor, it was reported that periodically a specific job would seem to hang and take forever to complete.  I was asked to set up something to help find exactly what statement in the job that was the root cause of the hang.  Since the issue only occurred intermittently, […]

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Oct 14

Find All Databases with Less Than 20 Percent Free Space and Grow Them

By Lori Brown | Function , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

This is kind of a continuation of one of my previous posts.  (https://www.sqlrx.com/find-and-modify-file-growth-settings-for-all-databases/ ) Thousands of databases in a SQL instance can make a DBA’s life a bit challenging.  Automation suddenly becomes very important.  My new client had been shrinking their databases frequently, mistakenly thinking that doing so was a good thing.  I needed to […]

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Sep 23

We’re Baaaaaack!!!

By Lori Brown | SQLRX

If you have visited us within the past year, you may have noticed that we have been pretty quiet on our blog and may have wondered what happened.  Well…..we had some technical difficulties (our syntax highlighter plugin stopped working), then we got super busy, then came the holidays, then came COVID.  I know, Excuses…Excuses….Excuses.  Well, […]

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Aug 29

Backup and Restore Databases with CHECKSUM and VERIFYONLY

By Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

I found out that I have been missing something from our regular database backups that I had no idea that I should have been using all along.  I know about verifying your backup file and have incorporated into our standard maintenance routines one that will periodically test backups by restoring using VERIFYONLY.  However, I totally […]

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