Category Archives for "SQL Administration"

Shrinking Database Files – Let’s Not And Say We Did

By Lori Brown | Advice , Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— by Lori Brown  @SQLSupahStah I recently ran into someone who swears that shrinking database files on a production server is a good thing and proudly said they did it on all systems they work on.  OMG!!  Let me post a quote directly from MSDN regarding weather or not shrinking database files causes fragmentation (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189493.aspx) […]

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Moving Non-clustered Indexes To New Data File

By 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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Find Currently Executing Jobs Running Longer Than 30 Day Average

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

–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 […]

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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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