By Lori Brown | Intermediate , Security , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Upgrade
–By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I am working with a client who is migrating from SQL 2012 to SQL 2016. It just so happens that while they have just a few databases to move, they also have a ton of SQL logins that needed to be migrated. This is not an issue since I know to […]
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— 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 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 […]
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–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 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 […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— 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 […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server
–by Ginger Keys Recently I had a client who, after speaking with their software vendor, became overly fearful of their database log files growing too big and taking up all of the disk space on their server. The software vendor is apparently used to having clients that don’t have a DBA on staff, and made […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , Intermediate , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah After reading up on AlwaysOn Monitoring and Alerting (http://blog.sqlrx.com/2015/08/27/alwayson-monitoring-and-alerting/), I was asked to come up with a way to automatically enable jobs that may only need to run on the primary replica of an availability group. Requirements were that on failover of an AlwaysOn Availability Group some jobs should be […]
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