By Lori Brown | SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition x64 only Buffer Pool Extension is a way to use solid state disks (SSD) as nonvolatile RAM (NvRAM) instead of memory. It reduces latency. It stores clean or committed pages only so there is no risk of data loss and […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Advice , Miscellaneous , Perfmon , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–by Ginger Keys Recently, a client of mine contacted me in a panic because CPU was running at 99-100% over an extended period of time, which was affecting everything on the machine. We’ve all seen it at one time or another. And there are several reasons this could be happening. It could be SQL consuming […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah If you are the usual DBA, you are often the last person to know when something new has been added to the databases you are managing. After finding that some people in an organization were abusing their access to a certain database, I decided to create a TSQL DDL trigger […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Since I manage several SQL clusters, I came up with a way to get a notification that the cluster may have failed over. This failover notification was created in self-defense because often times no one from the system administrators team will tell the DBA when work is being done or […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition since can only be done using ONLINE rebuilds. Index rebuilds have been enhanced with the WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY option. It is used to set the duration in minutes to wait as well as behavior when blocking happens. When setting WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY you also must set MAX_DURATION […]
Continue readingBy Jeffry Schwartz | Advice , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , Windows
— By Jeff Schwartz Hyperthreading is one of those features that most IT personnel have heard about, but many do not understand exactly what it does or why it may improve or degrade the performance of their servers. Although hyperthreaded processors have been available for many years, the confusion surrounding it is as commonplace today […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQLRX
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I recently had someone contact me who needed to figure out when a user’s database permissions were changed. Apparently, a domain account that had been working for months doing things in a specific database suddenly could not do its normal work. On checking, we found that all of the user’s […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | SQL Administration , SQLRX , Tip of the Month
Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition The Resource Governor can now restrict the number of I/O’s sent to the disk subsystem. In the past, only CPU and Memory could be throttled, but now DBAs can also throttle I/O. This gives DBAs the ability to further control those users who insist on running reports or […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Advice , Budgeting , Offer , SQL Server , SQLRX
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah This is a bit off from our normal technical blog posts but, hey, if you can’t go out on a limb on your own blog, what good is it? After doing cleanup on systems over the years, I started thinking about why some servers seem to be so poorly configured. […]
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