Changing SQL Server Agent Jobs Ownership: Who should own SQL Server Agent Jobs
I writing this blog post as a result of the following two questions, which I’ve been asked by one of...
2014-04-04
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Basit Aalishan Masood-Al-Farooq
Availability databases in unhealthy data synchronization state (Error: 35285, Severity: 16, State: 1.)
After power surge last night, I realized few availability databases (also known as a “database replica”) have an unhealthy data...
2014-04-02
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Verify a success of database backups
One of the most important tasks on a DBA’s to-do list is backing up databases on a regular basis. This...
2014-03-16
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Tables without Clustered Indexes?
Today, we experienced performance issues with some of the SSRS reports that were deployed as part of the latest application/database...
2014-03-13
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Different approaches of counting number of rows in a table
Today, I received an email from the developer asking if there is a better way instead of the COUNT (*) Transact-SQL...
2014-03-06
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Rebuild all indexes on all tables in the SQL Server database
One of the key tasks of a DBA is to maintain the database indexes and make sure they are not...
2014-02-23
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Removing part of string before and after specific character using Transact-SQL string functions
Problem
Today, one of the developers come to me and asked me the question that is there any T-SQL function that...
2014-02-23
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Get performance statistics for queries and query plans that are cached by SQL Server for faster query execution
You can use the following two DMVs to give you that information:
sys.dm_exec_cached_plans – You can use this dynamic management view to...
2014-02-17
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Transact-SQL query to obtain basic information about partitioned tables
Here is the simple query that returns basic information about all tables in a database that are partitioned:
SELECT SCHEMA_NAME([schema_id]) AS...
2014-02-17
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Transact-SQL (T-SQL) query to return the status and detail information for all SQL Server Full-Text Catalogs on an SQL Server instance
We have about 200 user databases in which we have the full-text search enabled and these databases contain several tables....
2014-01-27
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers