By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Windows
–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Part of being a proactive DBA is to get information on what is going on at the server level as well as at the SQL level. We know that the Windows Event logs are around but I find that not many DBA’s check them regularly. You can make this easier by […]
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Lots of people are using the SSIS catalog database, SSISDB, for SSIS packages. Actually, using the SSIS catalog is best practice but there are still some shops that use File System Packages. These shops should really consider migrating to the SSIS catalog. Some benefits are: Versioning: Version history is kept allowing developers to see list […]
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— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah While trying to add a database to an existing AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG), I was having difficulty making a connection from the primary replica to the secondary replica. The availability group was functioning but as I tried to add a database to it, my connection to the secondary replica was […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah While Try-Catch has been around since SQL 2005, you would be surprised at how infrequently applications and SQL programmers use this to handle errors. Since I also write my own maintenance and monitoring code and jobs that has to be deployed to my clients, I started making an effort to […]
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Sometimes it is good to have some queries in your toolkit that give you information on how things are running that includes the actual execution plan. While looking at Glenn Berry’s diagnostic query scripts (http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/glenn/sql-server-diagnostic-information-queries-for-september-2015/), which are very good btw, I found queries that will list stored procedure statistics but none had the execution plan […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Any login that is a member of the sysadmin role can reset the SA password. But, what if you have a hostile takeover by an application or for some strange reason don’t have any other logins as members of the sysadmin role? Don’t laugh! I have actually run into both […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah What are the critical aspects of SQL Server that a DBA should check on a daily basis? How about on a weekly or monthly basis? Daily Checklist Backups: Check your backups (Full, Differential, Transaction Logs) to validate that they were successfully created per your company’s policies. Nightly Processing: Review the nightly or […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah After reading up on AlwaysOn Monitoring and Alerting (http://blog.sqlrx.com/2015/08/27/alwayson-monitoring-and-alerting/), I was asked to come up with a way to automatically enable jobs that may only need to run on the primary replica of an availability group. Requirements were that on failover of an AlwaysOn Availability Group some jobs should be […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition x64 only Buffer Pool Extension is a way to use solid state disks (SSD) as nonvolatile RAM (NvRAM) instead of memory. It reduces latency. It stores clean or committed pages only so there is no risk of data loss and […]
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