By Lori Brown | Expert , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Statistics are pretty important to SQL Server. Statistics are small objects that hold information of the distribution of data in a table. The SQL optimizer uses this information to create efficient ways to get data from the table. So, if statistics are not taken care of SQL may have a […]
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— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I have a few clients who have set up SQL instances to hold copies of databases from either vendors or other companies with whom they are actively sharing data with. In these cases, since the source databases are on servers that are part of another company’s domain, the best way […]
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— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Periodically, all DBA’s are going to run into code that fails due to a deadlock. Deadlocks happen when two or more SPIDs\sessions try to access a resource that is locked by each other. In short, something has to give so one is usually chosen by SQL to be the victim […]
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SQLRx (@SQLRX) is proud to announce that two of our resident SQL Experts will be presenting sessions at SQL Saturday #515 in Baton Rouge, LA on August 6, 2016. If you have not signed up to attend, you are going to miss out!! http://www.sqlsaturday.com/515/eventhome.aspx Lori Brown (@SQLSupahStah) will give a lesson on how to be […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I was looking for a way to get info on the columns in indexes so that I could use the data to help enhance my index defrag routine. I found that my defrag logic did not figure out if an index has included columns that are LOBs and was failing […]
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— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah A temporal table is a table that holds old versions of rows from a base table. In other words it is a history table. By having temporal tables SQL Server can automatically manage moving old row versions to the temporal table every time a row in the base table is […]
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–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah SQL Server 2016 has introduced a couple of new functions that can be very useful and save storage space to boot. COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS offers the benefit of compressing column data thereby saving storage space. COMPRESS uses the GZIP compression algorithm and actually compresses data before it is stored in a […]
Continue readingBy 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 […]
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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 […]
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