The Daily Dose

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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Monitoring Log Shipping Using T-SQL

By Lori Brown | Log Shipping , SQL Administration , SQL Server

Log Shipping has been around a long time and it looks like it will continue to be useful and therefor supported. Since I still find Log Shipping being used, let’s talk about a T-SQL way to monitor it.

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Steps for Installing AlwaysOn Availability Groups – SQL 2019

By Ginger Daniel | Always On , Installation , SQL Administration , SQL Server

With SQL Server 2012 Microsoft introduced the AlwaysOn Availability Group feature, and since then many changes and improvements have been made.  This article is an update to our previous article https://www.sqlrx.com/steps-for-installing-sql-server-alwayson-availability-groups/ , and will cover the prerequisites and steps for installing AlwaysOn in your SQL Server 2019 environment. Prerequisites Add Windows Failover Cluster (WSFC) Install […]

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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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Find and Modify File Growth Settings for All Databases

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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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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Move Data from SQL Server to Azure Blob Storage with Incremental Changes – Part 2

By Ginger Daniel | Azure , Cloud , SQL Administration , SQL Server

In Part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to copy a full SQL database table from a SQL Server database into an Azure Blob Storage account as a csv file.  My client needed data moved from their on premise SQL Server database to Azure, and then needed the daily incremental data changes uploaded as […]

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Move Data from SQL Server to Azure Blob Storage with Incremental Changes – Part 1

By Ginger Daniel | Azure , Cloud , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

One of many options for Reporting and Power BI is to use Azure Blob Storage to access source data.  Most of the documentation available online demonstrates moving data from SQL Server to an Azure Database, however my client needed data to land in Azure Blob Storage as a csv file, and needed incremental changes to […]

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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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