By Lori Brown | Intermediate , Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah For the most part, I stick to my daily DBA duties of making sure that SQL Server maintenance is running and that the proverbial lights are on in all my SQL boxes. However, sometimes it is fun to do some tuning and it’s even better when you have a success. I […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server
-by Ginger Keys It is not uncommon for database files to grow to the point you need more disk space. But what if it’s not possible or not in the budget to add more space? There are several creative options you have to move or shrink files, or delete unneeded items from the disk. One […]
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–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I needed to update some of our long running job monitoring code to improve it from the version that we have right now. I like this version because it uses msdb.dbo.syssessions (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175016.aspx) to validate that a job is actually running. I also wanted to know the percent difference between the current […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah The dynamic management view sys.dm_server_registry has been around since SQL 2008 R2 SP1 so it is not new but it’s relatively new to me. Since I have a ton of SQL Servers to monitor, it is always good to have some way of easily knowing if there are any start up […]
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 […]
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