Category Archives for "SQL Maintenance"

Find All Databases with Less Than 20 Percent Free Space and Grow Them

By Lori Brown | Function , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

This is kind of a continuation of one of my previous posts.  (https://www.sqlrx.com/find-and-modify-file-growth-settings-for-all-databases/ ) Thousands of databases in a SQL instance can make a DBA’s life a bit challenging.  Automation suddenly becomes very important.  My new client had been shrinking their databases frequently, mistakenly thinking that doing so was a good thing.  I needed to […]

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Backup and Restore Databases with CHECKSUM and VERIFYONLY

By Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

I found out that I have been missing something from our regular database backups that I had no idea that I should have been using all along.  I know about verifying your backup file and have incorporated into our standard maintenance routines one that will periodically test backups by restoring using VERIFYONLY.  However, I totally […]

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Find Out Which Databases Have Multiple Files

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

This might be kind of basic but since I am working on a comprehensive script to discover things that a DBA really needs to know about, I made a couple of queries that will produce a list of the databases that have multiple files along with the locations of the physical files.  One query finds […]

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Find the Last Time Databases or Logs were Restored

By Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , Helpful Scripts , Log Shipping , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

I have a client that uses a lot of disconnected log shipping on a few servers.  They do this because they want to have a copy of their database that is actually hosted by software vendors for reporting purposes.  So, disconnected log shipping it is!  We pull down files that have been FTP’d to the […]

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Index REORGANIZE Generates Out of Space Messages

By Lori Brown | Indexes , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

I was doing some performance analysis at a client where we captured a traditional SQL trace.  Our client has SQL 2016 Enterprise that is fully patched up and uses Ola Hallengren’s IndexOptimize (https://ola.hallengren.com/) stored proc to do nightly index maintenance.  While the index maintenance ran, we caught over a hundred thousand Error 1105, Severity 17, […]

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Large MSDB Database From sysmaintplan_logdetail Table

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

I am recycling this blog post from 2015….”Why?”, you might ask…..Well, I am still running into instances with this exact issue. Soooo, here we go….again.  Enjoy. I recently received a panicked call from a client who had a SQL instance go down because the server’s C drive was full. As the guy looked he found […]

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Find Out Who Changed the Database Recovery Model

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

I ran into a situation where we were working on a migration and had been directed to put all databases into FULL recovery model in anticipation of using log shipping to push databases to the new server. Once we are ready to go live on the new server the plan was to ship the last […]

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Large MSDB From Hidden sysxmitqueue Table

By 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 […]

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AlwaysOn 2016 – Maintenance

By 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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