Blog Post: What are The Different Types of Database Backups?
If you are just beginning SQL Server database administration then you might not be familiar with the different types of database backups that are available and exactly what they backup. This post is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Counting is Easy, Measuring is Hard! Dashboard Design
Counting is easy, Measuring is Hard! Dashboard Design from Jennifer Stirrup
View ArticleBlog Post: #0346 – SQL Server – Using CASE with a PRINT statement
Informational and alert messages during execution of a T-SQL script are the most preferred method to update the user on the progress of the task being executed. These messages are generated by the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Creation & Deletion of Database Snapshot by SQL Agent Job
Some days back, I received one query on my facebook page that user want to create Database Snapshot frequently & want to delete the oldest with same frequency. Quite interesting scenario. I did...
View ArticleBlog Post: I SCHEMABOUND my scalar UDF and you won’t believe what happened next.
Sorry for the click bait but I just couldn’t resist, and to be fair I was pretty impressed with this little trick. The other week I did a post on SCHEMABINDING and Diana sent me this great link on...
View ArticleBlog Post: Dealing with Duplicates in the Data Flow
I frequently see posts in the MSDN forums requesting assistance in removing duplicate values from a source, other than SQL, to be entered into a SQL Server destination. There are several options to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Display ETA and Percent Completed for BACKUP or RESTORE Commands
This code will show you the estimated time of completion and percent completed for currently running BACKUP or RESTORE commands. -- Shows both backups and restores. select session_id as 'spid' ,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tuesday Tips: Five Considerations for Transaction Workload Analysis
Performance. Problem. Two words DBAs never want to see together. Yet avoiding (or eliminating) database performance problems can eat up hours, days or weeks of an administrator’s time. We have a ton...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Updates – SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU2
As part of their Incremental Service Modelling , Microsoft have released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 2! Service Pack 2 CU#2 can be applied to any of the following Microsoft SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Update – 2 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Is Now...
The 2ndcumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 2 contains all the hotfixes released since the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Update – 12 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now...
The 12th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 12 contains all the hotfixes released since the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Application timing out due to excessive blocking on tempdb PFS
Problem Applications Connecting to SQL Server timing out Symptoms Excessive blocking with the wait resource being tempdb PFS page High CPU utilization on the server Troubleshooting...
View ArticleBlog Post: Triggers are not toys!
For the love of all that’s SQL, triggers are not toys! I’m not even talking about logon triggers or DDL triggers . I’m talking about plain old ordinary DML triggers . Triggers are very useful tools...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why I’m Not Excited About Hekaton (In-Memory OLTP)
A while back I had written a post about why I’m excited about Hekaton (now called ‘In-Memory OLTP’ – not sure why, Hekaton is much more fun to say), and while I am certainly still excited about this...
View ArticleBlog Post: There Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues, but 85 Percent...
“Oh, no thanks, Boss. I’d much rather sit here all summer and keep an eye on our SQL Server backups than go to the beach or ride my bike.” Said nobody. Ever. We recently published a blog about having a...
View ArticleBlog Post: [SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 101 – Baseline with PAL Tools
Welcome to Part 1 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand how to start performance tuning with SQL Server. This first video describes how to...
View ArticleBlog Post: CMS: List Jobs not Writing to the Windows Event Log
Using CMS , we can get a list of all the SQL Agent Jobs that aren't writing to the Windows Event Log upon failure, and set them to do so. -- Check for Jobs that aren't writing to the Event Log....
View ArticleBlog Post: CMS: List All Jobs that Do Not Notify on Failure
Using CMS , we can get a list of all the Jobs on all the servers that have no email (nor page, nor netsend) notification set up for Failure. This can be useful to find Jobs that are silently failing,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why is My Log File so Big??
This is probably one of the most common posts that I see on the MSDN forums and hear from students. The most common answer is that the database has been set to full or bulk logged recovery model and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Passwords – A T-SQL Tuesday Topic
Being engrossed with the daily tasks at hand I completely missed this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being brought to you by Sebastian Meine Blog | Twitter . Although the time frame has passed I would be...
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