Get Database information in mail using PowerShell !
Would you love to get a weekly status report of all the databases hosted on your mission critical servers? ,Would...
2013-02-26
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Check the version of Windows Installer !
This post is a quick tip to find the version of Windows Installer installed on your box.
You might wonder why...
2013-02-09
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Quick alert on servers which are not compliant for policies set using PBM
Last month I wrote about leveraging policy based management for regular DBA compliance checks. You can read that post here.
Policy based management(PBM) is indeed...
2013-02-06
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Leverage Policy Based Management for regular Page Verify =Checksum compliance monitoring
Page Verify = Checksum is one option which I like all my servers to be compliant. By default all the new...
2013-01-17
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DBCC Memorystatus SQL2012 – A quick observation for node Process/System Counts
This post is not a detailed explanation of DBCC Memorystatus for SQL2012,but a quick observation I made recently for the...
2013-01-11
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SQLAgent Job related reports and out of box real time job monitoring tool !
Lets start New Year with a very simple yet useful topic.
I am a big fan of out of box reporting...
2013-01-08
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2012 in review !
Year 2012 was super special for me in many ways. Made lot of new friends, Attended SQLPASS Summit 2012 and had...
2012-12-31
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Next Gen File System ReFS(Resilient File System) and SQLServer !
“ReFS”, this term was absolutely new to me when I was reading this white paper from Microsoft ‘Storage Windows Server...
2012-12-13
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Plan cache bloat by SQLAgent (Prior to SQL2008) !
Recently I was checking the plan cache utilization with the help of the below query which I normally use for...
2012-12-05 (first published: 2012-11-29)
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PASS Summit 2012 News – Check- in Experience!
Registration and Check in for PASS Summit 2012 was opened yesterday (Nov 4th), and I decided to utilize this opportunity...
2012-11-05
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Blogs
A New Word: Vicarous
By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
SQL Server Cross Platform Availability Groups and Kubernetes
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Forums
View works for me ...but doesn't return results for a user in SSMS but no errors
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
Dark mode, other color schemes
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Question of the Day
Internal Checkpoints
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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