By 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 […]
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— 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 […]
Continue readingBy Jeffry Schwartz | Expert , Miscellaneous , SQL Development , SQL Server , Windows
The Problem How many times have you had to subdivide, group, rank, and organize data when you knew very little about the data itself except for the meanings of the columns? This dilemma is one that the members of the SQLRx team encounter frequently. When a customer requests help with a performance problem, we often […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server
–by Ginger Keys Dynamic Data Masking is a SQL Server 2016 feature that can be deployed as part of your overall security strategy. Data masking is not intended as a primary security solution, but provides a way to obfuscate or hide characters in data such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, and […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah While trying to add a database to an existing AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG), I was having difficulty making a connection from the primary replica to the secondary replica. The availability group was functioning but as I tried to add a database to it, my connection to the secondary replica was […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | Intermediate , Performance Tuning , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
SQL Server Performance Tuning: New function in SQL 2016: sys.dm_exec_function_stats Returns performance statistics for cached functions. Returns information about scalar functions, including in-memory functions and CLR scalar functions but not about table valued functions. The view returns one row for each cached function plan, and the lifetime of the row is as long as the […]
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