Top 10 SQL Server Counters for Monitoring SQL Server Performance
Greg Larsen lists his top 10 SQL Server counters for maintaining database performance.
2011-05-12
7,210 reads
Articles
Finding Free Space per Data File with PowerShell
Learn the easy way, and the hard way, to find the free space in each data file with Powershell expert Aaron Nelson.
2011-05-11
6,430 reads
SQLServerCentral Best Practices Clinic: Part 3
Part 3 of the analysis of the SQLServerCentral database cluster by MVP Brad McGehee. Follow along as he talks about some SQL Server settings and gives reasons why they should or should not be changed.
2011-05-11
3,800 reads
Find SQL Server data and log files that are almost out of space
On many SQL Servers database file size, either data or log, may be restricted to a maximum size to ensure there is adequate space on the server. The problem with this is that if your data or log file runs out of space you will get an error message
2011-05-11
4,028 reads
SQL Skills Immersion Event Wrapup
A look back at SQLskills Immersion training from Eric Stefani, who attended the week long class recently. SQLskills provides some amazing training, and is worth attending if want to become better skilled at being a DBA.
2011-05-10
2,395 reads
Using SQL Server Resource Governor to Control Resource Utilization
This article introduces SQL Server Resource Governor and provides a detailed walkthrough of using Resource Governor to manage the resource utilization of SQL Server.
2011-05-10
3,225 reads
Looking for Work in SQL Server
How can you find a SQL Server job? Craig Farrell brings us an article that shows how you can look for a job and get an interview whether you have very little, or years of experience.
2011-05-09
9,521 reads
There cometh a shower
Phil Factor speculates on the damage caused to Cloud providers by the Amazon and Sony Outages.
2011-05-09
172 reads
Find SQL Server databases where log file is too large
I support thousands of databases and I'm running across situations where I have a database that has a data file of a couple hundred megabytes and the associated log file is gigabytes in size! I understand this is because I may not have my transaction log backups scheduled properly. What I'm interested in is an easy way to identify these situations where the SQL log file is too large, so I can go in and further analyze these problem databases without needing to look at each database.
2011-05-09
5,073 reads
Trading in xp_cmdshell for SQLCLR (Part 2) - Export Data to Flat Files
Learn how SQLCLR can be used to replace BCP and xp_cmdshell to export data to comma separated and tab delimited flat files.
2011-05-06 (first published: 2009-03-03)
19,796 reads
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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