By Ginger Daniel | SQL Server
Much of the responsibility of a DBA is to keep the SQL Server environment stable and healthy, to ensure data integrity and availability, and to make sure the data is safe and secure. There are many vulnerabilities to SQL Server, and many available features to safeguard and protect the data. SQL Server security is a […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Expert , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Recently, I was checking on some of the servers that I manage and found that one had an 8GB msdb database. While that is not too bad it is kind of large so I figured that there must be something that needed to be cleaned up. I ran the Disk […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server
— by Ginger Keys SQL Server AlwaysOn provides a fairly robust environment for disaster recovery; however you can never be too careful when it comes to technology and protecting your data. Regular maintenance routines (i.e. backups, etc.) need to be set up and performed on an ongoing basis, even when you have your databases in […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Trace Flags
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Once again, I find things about SQL Server that I had no idea were even available when I actually have time to do some in-depth reading and research. Most of the time, my regular duties keep me so busy that I don’t have time to play with new SQL functionality […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Expert , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Statistics are pretty important to SQL Server. Statistics are small objects that hold information of the distribution of data in a table. The SQL optimizer uses this information to create efficient ways to get data from the table. So, if statistics are not taken care of SQL may have a […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Expert , Log Shipping , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I have a few clients who have set up SQL instances to hold copies of databases from either vendors or other companies with whom they are actively sharing data with. In these cases, since the source databases are on servers that are part of another company’s domain, the best way […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Periodically, all DBA’s are going to run into code that fails due to a deadlock. Deadlocks happen when two or more SPIDs\sessions try to access a resource that is locked by each other. In short, something has to give so one is usually chosen by SQL to be the victim […]
Continue readingBy Jeffry Schwartz | Expert , Miscellaneous , Performance Tuning , SQL Development , SQL Server
The following testing and resulting data is a direct result of a recent issue that was discovered at one of our client sites. After setting up SQL monitoring that does use a SQL trace to capture long running queries, suddenly certain processes would lock up and be unable to complete. Initially we thought it was […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–by Ginger Keys AlwaysOn Availability Groups made its debut in SQL Server 2012 as a new feature that enhanced the existing technologies of database mirroring and failover clustering to provide an option for high availability and disaster recovery. AlwaysOn gives you the ability to scale out several secondary Servers (replicas) for high availability or […]
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