I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W. Stirk. In it he points out that you can create a temporary table from a query and use it to store the data from multiple runs of the query. This… Read more

The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs in my query before I was done. My plan was to dump the information into a table to process it further. I’m used to just throwing an INSERT INTO command… Read more

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers and export the list of databases to a central location. I used a Foreach Item Enumerator to list the servers but honestly those require a bit too much maintenance for… Read more

I’ve been working on a way to test performance usage on a server by database. I started out using sys.dm_exec_query_stats since it has every statistic I wanted. Unfortunately it doesn’t contain the database id which makes it rather difficult to split the data out by database. This lead me to… Read more

Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of a hurry I didn’t really finish. Last time I created the loop and got it working, but didn’t do anything with it. So this time I’m going to demonstrate using… Read more

About three years ago my manager came up to me and said “We need someone to learn SSIS, you’re it.”  So I started with my favorite approach.  I picked a project, in this case monitoring backups on multiple servers, and then developed it using the new (to me) technology.  This… Read more