March Madness – SQL Server style
Bodypaint not required
It seems that March is another great month for getting your geek on without having to leave the...
2012-03-08
626 reads
Colleen M. Morrow
RYO Maintenance Plan – Index Maintenance
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, but I swear I have a good excuse. I’ve been...
2012-03-05
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Update Statistics
Another key component of any good maintenance plan is updating statistics. Statistics are what help the SQL Server optimizer choose...
2012-02-27 (first published: 2012-02-21)
2,533 reads
RYO Maintenance Plan – Enhancement Request
In response to my last post, I got a very interesting comment from Philip:
“I would love to see a way...
2012-02-13 (first published: 2012-02-09)
1,546 reads
Using Powershell to Deploy Performance Monitor
As good little DBAs, we should be gathering baseline statistics for our database servers. These stats can give us insight...
2012-02-13
2,667 reads
RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups, Part 3
4 out of 5 DBAs agree
I’ve covered creating my backup directories and the actual backup of the database(s). The last...
2012-02-08 (first published: 2012-02-06)
2,295 reads
RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups, Part 2
Last time I dealt with the creation of subdirectories, in one or more root locations, to house my database backups....
2012-01-30
1,832 reads
RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups
Remember kids...
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a big proponent of automating routine tasks. If I have to do...
2012-01-26 (first published: 2012-01-23)
3,522 reads
Goals – 6 month checkup
Last week’s resolutions post reminded me that it’s time for another status check on the goals I set for myself...
2012-01-17
812 reads
TSQL Tuesday #026 – Second Chances
Welcome to the first TSQL Tuesday of 2012! This month’s soiree is being hosted by Dave Howard (blog | twitter) and...
2012-01-10
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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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