Blog Post: SQL SERVER – Playing with Backups and Compression
The era of innovation with SQL Server administration side of things keep happening, it is strange that a lot of us miss these capabilities getting added into the system. I have seen processes define...
View ArticleBlog Post: #0395 – SQL Server – SSIS – Adding date and time to a file name...
I explore how to pick up files from a folder and append date-time to a file processed by SSIS using a simple File System Task.
View ArticleBlog Post: Monday Coffee 2016-11-28
MCSA SQL Server 2016 The new SQL 2016 MCSA exams are out and joy of joys, the DBA path no longer requires the Data Warehouse exam! I say this as a DBA who has had limited practical exposure to the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Announcing Minion CheckDB release date!
Minion CheckDB is the third piece of our free backup and maintenance tools, rounding out the list with Minion Backup and Minion Reindex...and it's coming in early 2017. The post Announcing Minion...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Future of the DBA
I’ve written before about how databases are like a car engine, and DBAs are like a car mechanic. That’s been the traditional view for production DBAs for, well, forever I think. And that analogy may...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – How to Find the In-Memory OLTP Tables Memory Usage on...
When I presented at the SQLPASS this year there were several learning that I found it interesting. Every year, this presentation preparation is something I take it seriously. I know many them turn up...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Log Shipping Copy Job Failure – The Password for This...
Working as freelancer gives an opportunity to see various kinds of error and having fun to fix them. Recently, one of my blog readers sent an email and asked assistance on the log shipping issue. He...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server – Playing With Trace Flags
Trace flags are used to temporarily set specific server characteristics or to switch off a particular behavior. They are usually scoped to a global level or a session only level. For this blog post I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure pricing
Not a technical post today (not that I am technical) but still an important one. I have been using Azure for 1.5 years now and I am still fascinated by the ever-changing technology. Talking of...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Fix Connection Error – [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server...
As a part of my quick consultancy, I was contacted by a client who was having trouble where the application was not able to connect to SQL Server. We all joined the call and desktop sharing to learn...
View ArticleBlog Post: I use Elastic database pools – for now
When you have many SQL databases that are required to run your environments and they show signs of specific usage patterns and some of the databases requires different performance levels then how can...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – FIX Error – Cluster Network Name showing NETBIOS...
Over a period, I have learned that fixing an issue is easier if we know which log we should look at and what we should search on google. Here is the situation which I was into few days back. In this...
View ArticleBlog Post: DMV to Replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER Command – Interview Question of...
Question: Is there any way to replace DBCC INPUTBUFFER Command? Answer: In a recent interview, I heard this question and it caught me off guard. Honestly, when I heard this question being asked to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Migrating reports between SSRS report servers simplified with new...
I recently needed to replicate all of the reports on one report server to a different server. I started downloading each report one at a time to a file system folder, moving them to the other machine...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Errors When Disk Space is the Reason
In the past, I have written a number of blogs when it comes to working with errors pertinent to disk space running out. In this blog, I try to consolidate the common messages you are going to see in...
View ArticleBlog Post: #0396 – SQL Server – SSIS – Move and rename a file – “Could not...
If a file has to be renamed and moved to a different folder, one cannot use the "Move File" operation in a File System Task. One should use the "Rename File" Task.
View ArticleBlog Post: Monday Coffee 2016-12-05
You are the DBA your company makes you. Aren’t you? SQL Server has such a wide range of features that no DBA role will implement all of them. So, you use a certain subset in each role that you occupy...
View ArticleBlog Post: December: A two-line play.
“Wow! A family, a marathon, and two businesses! So how do you keep up with it all?” asked Twitter. “Work-life balance,” she replied, glancing furtively at her sparsely populated blog. Fin (P.S. The...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Speed Up Performance Without Code Change
In this blog post we are going to leave about how to Speed Up Performance Without Code Change or Configuration Change in SQL Server. This blog post is going to be a fun and quick read. Please make sure...
View ArticleBlog Post: Checking your Wait Stats via Power BI
Wait stats is my go to thing, however I do get bored just querying it via a table so I decided to broaden my horizons and see how “analytical” I could get with it via Power BI. What I usually …...
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