Thanks for joining me for a standing room only presentation this morning at 9:45am at SQL Saturday #150 Houston.  This is the second year speaking at SQL Saturday Houston and the event was one of the best I've been to, kudos to the organizers.  I was especially impressed that all…

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I’ll be spending the day with the 2011 Idera ACE’s (aka the old aces) and the 2012 Idera ACES (the new ones!) as we share lessons learned, work on being better at presenting and networking, and in general talk about ways to have a positive impact. Then tonight I’ll be… Read more

I work with a motley crowd of developers and have the opportunity to give lunch and learn training sessions on SQL Development.

Most recently, I put together a .zip file of T-SQL scripts that developers would find handy.  You can download it here.

Here's a summary:

Missing Indexes -…

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In just two days SQL Saturday 107 will be in full swing.  Tomorrow begins their precon with the infamous Kalen Delaney.  Those who were lucky enough to sign up and get one of the coveted spots are in for a treat.  Thanks to the Idera ACE program I was blessed… Read more

When I troulbshooting the logshipping problem, I found many logshipping store procedure can not be found in the master or msdb database. for instance, in the master. [sys].[sp_add_log_shipping_secondary_primary] , it calls sys.sp_MSprocesslogshippingjob to create the copy job, however, sys.sp_MSprocesslogshippingjob is in the resource database, we can not review its code with sp_helptext command.

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As with every good DBA's toolbox, my blocking list query using sys.dm_exec_requests is evolving.

I've added the following features:

• The query execution plan of the active request in the QueryPlan column to the right.
• Variable at the top which changes the relationship of the join between sys.dm_exec_sessions and  sys.dm_exec_requests. 
• When set…

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Minnesota SQL Server User Group Meeting Review (4/17/12) First of all, I have to thank the awesome speakers who presented at our user group meeting on Tuesday night, April 17.  Mark Souza ( T | B ) for a great question and answer session.  He was open about SQL Server…

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“Why I joined Linchpin People as a Teammate”

It was announced publicly this past weekend at SQL Saturday #111 that I have joined Linchpin People as their first teammate.  My friend Andy who is also a Chief Servant Officer of Linchpin made the announcement during the speaker dinner and gave… Read more

Andy Leonard blogged about a gotcha when creating SSIS projects using SSDT yesterday. He showed that you can use any component in SSDT whether or not your SQL Server supports that component. For example, you can create a package with Fuzzy Lookup and deploy to a server running Business Intelligence… Read more

 

This is a first blog for this month, yes I was busy with Powershell quiz and some other personal stuff.

Okay, continue with Miscellaneous Info
here is some more important stuff/ information about sql server.

>>Ghost cleanup task runs every 5minuts (in 2005) and runs every 10minuts in (2008… Read more

In a recent Scripting Games event, I had to format some byte values into their most appropriate size according to how many bytes were present. Anyone who hangs around with me long enough will realize I love numbers and the preciseness that they provide. This is one of many reasons…

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Next up on the SQL Server 2012 Performance testing circuit: Gap Detection. You know, where you find missing values from a table of sequential numbers.

SQL Server 2012 introduces the LEAD function, which I’ve previously blogged about here. In that blog post, I covered how to do Gap Detection… Read more

Last week, our log shipping setup had a problem, so I spent some time to dig into the log shipping.

there are 2 monitor tables after logshipping setup
1. log_shipping_monitor_primary
      This table has entries for all primary database on primary server and monitor server

2. log_shipping_monitor_secondary 
      This table has entries…

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If you have an 11th generation Dell PowerEdge R810 , PowerEdge R910 server, or a PowerEdge M910 blade server, there is a pretty recent (April 9, 2012) Urgent update to version 2.7.0 for the main system BIOS. Here is Dell’s description of the update:

Dell highly recommends applying…

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Yesterday, I received two mails from the Microsoft Certification Program Team about two new certification earned:

1. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – SQL Server 2008 Core

2. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – Windows Server® 2008

 

These also reflected on my transcript today. These two new certifications are awarded due… Read more

In our blog post last week: Instance Wide Wait Stats we promised to show You how to visualize the collected wait stats with Microsoft Excel, so this is what this blog post will be about.

The blog post from last week will be the basic setup for this one, so… Read more

As a follow-up to my SQL Server 2012: New Certification Info, Microsoft Learning has announced the certification tracks for the SQL Server 2012 exams.  There are new names for the certifications:

Your first step is to achieve Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA).

If you are new to certification you… Read more