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SQL 2016 SP1 USE HINT

By Lori Brown | Intermediate , Performance Tuning , SQL Development , SQL Server , Trace Flags

–By Lori Brown   @SQLSupahStah After installing Service Pack 1 for SQL 2016, I ran across USE HINT and thought I would put out what I could find to document it. Here’s where you find info from Microsoft: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181714.aspx and here is a link for all of the bugs that are fixed in SP1: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3182545 USE […]

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Synchronize Logins on AlwaysOn Replicas

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , Security , SQL Administration , SQL Server

–By Lori Brown   @SQLSupahStah At one of my clients who has an AlwaysOn failover cluster, I noticed as I was checking up on things on the secondary replica that there were several fewer Windows and SQL logins on the secondary than on the primary. I really did not want to tediously compare the logins on […]

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Script to De-Orphan SQL Logins

By Lori Brown | Intermediate , Security , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Upgrade

–By Lori Brown   @SQLSupahStah I am working with a client who is migrating from SQL 2012 to SQL 2016. It just so happens that while they have just a few databases to move, they also have a ton of SQL logins that needed to be migrated. This is not an issue since I know to […]

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SQL 2016 Service Pack 1 Released

By Lori Brown | SQL Administration , SQL Server

— By Lori Brown   @SQLSupahStah SQL 2016 SP1 has been released. I might be a little late to this announcement but thought I would at least give the download link and some highlights on things that are fixed in it. Download it from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54276 Some of the highlights are: New CREATE OR ALTER that […]

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SQL Server Security – Controlling Access

By Ginger Daniel | Beginner , Security , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— by Ginger Keys Installing SQL following best practices is an important first step in securing your SQL server. The next step in securing your SQL server is to decide who can access the SQL instance, what databases and other objects they need access to, and what kind of permission to give them to those […]

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Consistency Check an Analysis Services Database

By Lori Brown | Analysis Services , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Upgrade

— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I am migrating a client to SQL 2016 and had to restore the SSAS databases and do what amounts to a DBCC CHECKDB against it. The command is done while connected to SSAS in Management Studio. You open an XMLA query (not MDX)… …and run the following: <DBCC xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine“> <Object> […]

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SQL Server Memory In Task Manager – Tell Your Manager to Not Worry!

By Ginger Daniel | Advice , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQLRX , Windows

-by Ginger Keys We are going to re-promote this subject because it is still so relevant. All too often we run into people who are in a panic after looking at Task Manager to try to diagnose SQL stress. They seem to become very worried when looking at how much memory SQL uses not realizing […]

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List All Objects and Indexes in a Filegroup or Partition

By Lori Brown | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah One of my clients has a rather large database with multiple filegroups and multiple database files in them. I happened to notice that a specific drive that is occupied by 2 specific files that are supposed to hold indexes is getting utilized at a much higher rate than any of […]

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Upcoming SQLRX Lunch and Learn

By Lori Brown | Lunch And Learn , SQL Server

Please join SQLRX’s Lori Brown and the SQLRX team at the Microsoft Campus in Irving, Texas this coming Wednesday November 16, 2016 for an informative take on reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2016. Register Now! There are a lot of really good reasons to upgrade to SQL 2016. Even if you’re still on SQL 2008 […]

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