By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
I have a client who is challenging me in a lot of ways. They have over a thousand databases in one of their 2 SQL instances. Over. A. Thousand. Admittedly, the databases are not big but the sheer quantity of them is daunting to say the least. To make it more fun, some of the […]
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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, […]
Continue readingBy 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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I have been working on some improvements to some of the regular ways we monitor for important changes. We always have to be on the lookout for unexpected changes being made in the SQL instances that we monitor since often times we are not the only team who has sysadmin access to the instance. We […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Jobs , SQL Administration , SQL Server
Hooray!! We finally have our 70-764 and 70-765 certification exams done and can turn our attention back to blogging more regularly. Those exams were pretty tough mostly because there was a lot of information that had to be memorized since there are always aspects of SQL that we don’t regularly use and there is no […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server
This might be kind of basic but since I am working on a comprehensive script to discover things that a DBA really needs to know about, I made a couple of queries that will produce a list of the databases that have multiple files along with the locations of the physical files. One query finds […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Installation , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Upgrade
I was recently performing an in-place upgrade of SQL 2008 R2 to SQL 2014 on one of my client’s servers. I have done a ton of successful and uneventful in-place upgrades and was surprised when the upgrade failed with the error message: “Failed to create a new folder ‘X:\SQLBackups’. The specified path is invalid (for […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
A little while back I wrote a post going over sp_help in a beginning effort to find table dependency information. https://www.sqlrx.com/using-sp_help-to-find-object-dependencies/. That expanded to reviewing sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities & sys.dm_sql_referenced_entities (https://www.sqlrx.com/finding_things_sql_that_reference_a_table/ & https://www.sqlrx.com/how-to-find-the-objects-and-columns-a-stored-procedure-or-view-uses/ ) and sys.sql_expression_dependencies (https://www.sqlrx.com/using-sys-sql_expression_dependencies-as-a-single-source-to-find-referenced-and-referencing-objects/ ) Now I want to loop back just a bit and expand on more information that is found in sp_help […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
I thought I would continue to expand on ways to view dependencies. This post will give you an alternate way to find things referencing tables and finding things that are referenced by a stored procedure or view after my previous posts on the subject. See these (https://www.sqlrx.com/finding_things_sql_that_reference_a_table/ & https://www.sqlrx.com/how-to-find-the-objects-and-columns-a-stored-procedure-or-view-uses/ ) A different way to find […]
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