By Lori Brown | Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I was looking for a way to get info on the columns in indexes so that I could use the data to help enhance my index defrag routine. I found that my defrag logic did not figure out if an index has included columns that are LOBs and was failing […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah A temporal table is a table that holds old versions of rows from a base table. In other words it is a history table. By having temporal tables SQL Server can automatically manage moving old row versions to the temporal table every time a row in the base table is […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Beginner , Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah SQL Server 2016 has introduced a couple of new functions that can be very useful and save storage space to boot. COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS offers the benefit of compressing column data thereby saving storage space. COMPRESS uses the GZIP compression algorithm and actually compresses data before it is stored in a […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Installation , SQL Administration , SQL Server
Now that SQL Server 2016 has been released (https://blog.sqlrx.com/2016/06/01/sql-server-2016-rtm-available/ ), DBA’s are going to notice that the Management Studio tools are not in the list of options to install. Starting in SQL 2016, SSMS is a separate download and install. You can find the download at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/mt238290.aspx The install notes say that it can be […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–By Ginger Keys Database Mail is a feature of SQL Server that sends email from the SQL Server database engine to SMTP servers. It can be used to notify administrators when events happen in SQL server, such as job failures, failover notifications, or any other event deemed important in your environment. You can also use […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Ginger Keys Recently a client of mine moved their production SQL Server Cluster to a new physical environment. When the time came to ‘go-live’ with the new environment, the client wanted the new SQL cluster name and IP address (SQLCLUSTERTEMP) to be renamed to the original, legacy name and IP address (SQLCLUSTER). […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server
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 […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Advice , Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
If you have Full Text catalogs set up in your databases you may notice that inside your log folder there will be lots of files named SQLFTxxxxxxxxxxxx.LOG. These are known as crawl logs which are designed to log information on the full text indexing. These logs can really pile up and there is no automated […]
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