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 […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
Continue readingBy 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> […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
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 | Lunch And Learn , SQL Server
Please join SQLRX’s Lori Brown and the SQLRX team at the Microsoft Campus in Irving, Texas this coming Wednesday November 16, 2016 for an informative take on reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2016. Register Now! There are a lot of really good reasons to upgrade to SQL 2016. Even if you’re still on SQL 2008 […]
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 | SQL Server
Much of the responsibility of a DBA is to keep the SQL Server environment stable and healthy, to ensure data integrity and availability, and to make sure the data is safe and secure. There are many vulnerabilities to SQL Server, and many available features to safeguard and protect the data. SQL Server security is a […]
Continue readingBy 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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