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SQL Server 2016 RTM Available!!

By SQLRx Admin | Advice , Installation , Miscellaneous , SQL Server , Upgrade

In case you live under a rock or were at the dentist, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2016 has been made generally available today June 1, 2016. See: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/06/01/sql-server-2016-is-generally-available-today/ Pricing is as follows: A handy feature comparison of previous versions of SQL can be located here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server/comparison.aspx SQL 2016 feature comparison between editions can be […]

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Correlate Performance Spikes with SQL Profiler and Perfmon

By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , Perfmon , Performance Tuning , SQL Server , SQLRX

–by Ginger Keys Have you ever watched performance metrics in Performance Monitor (Perfmon) and wondered which SQL Server activities were causing those spikes? SQLRx offers a Microsoft Partner-of-the-Year award-winning service that will correlate all performance metrics on your server with very little overhead, and will pinpoint with precision, right down to a line of code […]

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How SQLRX Can Help You When Tools Do Not

By SQLRx Admin | Advice , Miscellaneous , Offer , SQL Server , SQLRX

For those of you who visit our humble blog from time to time and have never actually checked out our website (www.sqlrx.com) to get acquainted with what we do, please allow me to check that box for you. SQLRX is part of a Dallas, Texas based consulting company called Integrated Services Inc (ISI). The SQLRX […]

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Load Windows Event Log Errors into a SQL Table

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 […]

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@@SERVERNAME Returns Old Name or NULL

By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— 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). […]

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March 2016 Tip of the Month -Full Text Indexing – Clean up those log files!

By 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 […]

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Using Ranking Functions to Partition and Order Unfamiliar Data

By 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 […]

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SQL Server Audit Feature

By Ginger Daniel | Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— By Ginger Keys Once upon a time there was an organization that depended on very accurate data entry rules.  For various reasons, some of the employees who were responsible for inputting and updating records were not very diligent about following rules to keep the data clean and uniform, reasoning that IT would go behind […]

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Disk Metrics – Why PerfMon’s, SQL Server’s Filestats, and Disk Vendors’ Values Sometimes Appear to Disagree

By Jeffry Schwartz | Expert , Performance Tuning , SQL Server , Windows

— By Jeffry Schwartz Whenever multiple data sources are used, actual or perceived discrepancies can arise. Sometimes this is due to the location of the data collector, e.g., Windows, SQL Server, or the disk array. Other times, it is due to the collection rate and whether the information is a simple recording of continuously incremented […]

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