SQLServerDBA News - 2011 Review for SQLServerDBA
2011 was a great year on a personal and professional level
1) Completed the Brighton Marathon in 4hrs 36 secs
2) Blogged...
2011-12-31
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- Interests: Performance Tuning Database Servers, Running and Coffee
Top 10 SQL Server Posts for 2011
2011 is nearly over. It’s time to list the Top 10 viewed SQLServer-DBA.com posts for the year , based on Views.
System...
2011-12-24
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Routing OSPF and Network Team
After a server move to the failover Data Centre – a file copy between the two sites slowed down by 6x. ...
2011-12-21
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Nic Teaming
Network card teaming or NIC teaming are networking terms describing methods of combining multiple parallel network connections . The main purposes...
2011-12-14
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CPU Count
I document the CPU Count for SQL Server inventory management.
Using a powershell script , iterate through all the SQL Servers and...
2011-12-13
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SQL Traces and c2 auditing are different
Sometimes end users interchange the terms : C2 auditing and Traces.
They server different purposes.
c2 auditing records all attempts (successfull and...
2011-12-12
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SQL Database Status with sys.databases
I was creating a Powershell script for a SQL Server checkout procedure after a reboot , and used the state_desc column...
2011-12-09
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SQL Server Latency
Latency is the time delay measure in the system. SQL Server can only be as fast as the slowest component...
2011-12-07
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DATEADD and variables in SQL
To make the T-SQL function DATEADD more dynamic use variables. The example below , accepts an input parameter , in this case...
2011-12-06
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Enable XA transactions for SQL Server
An XA transaction is a global transaction usually covering multiple resources.
Use the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver to support the ...
2011-12-05
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Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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