By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQL Toolkit
–By Lori Brown I am going to start up a thread with some queries that I consider to be important to DBA’s. As a consultant, many times we have to start managing SQL instances without any knowledge of why it has been configured in various ways. We usually try to work with our clients to […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Beginner , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Ginger Keys During the migration of a client’s SQL environment to a new hosting provider it was questioned whether all of the databases needed to be migrated. Nobody seemed to know whether several of the databases were used or what they were for. One person suggested we just not move them, and see […]
Continue readingBy 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 | Beginner , Miscellaneous , Security , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–By Ginger Keys After migrating a client’s SQL instances to VMs from physical servers, I noticed the following week that the SQL Server Log files had tons of failed login attempts from what looked like an application. These attempts were happening several times per second, and had totally bloated the SQL Server logs. This is […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Back it up!! …. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! … Oh wait! Not that kind of backup… Since I spent a lot of time trying to creatively move a database from one server to another last night, I thought that a review of ways to backup and restore would be a […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | ColumnStore , Expert , Partitions , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I recently ran across a data warehouse that did have the largest table partitioned. We were migrating up to SQL 2016 and we wanted to make sure that the partitions were still working and in place. Since I felt I needed to refresh my table partitioning skills, I decided to […]
Continue readingBy 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) […]
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 […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Expert , SQL 2016 , SQL Development , SQL Server , SSIS Catalog
–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I have a client who has a lot of SSIS packages in the SSIS catalog that we are migrating to a new server. Of course there is lots of testing going on. So the question came up about how to more easily see package runtimes and comparing to the overall average […]
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