SQL Server Save Time Managing Multiple Servers With Central Management Servers
Central Management Servers give us a way to manage a collection of SQL Servers as one, a query executed against...
2018-05-15
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Gavin Draper
SQL Server Building On Calculations With APPLY
I find myself using Apply more and more in my queries, aside from the usual reasons I’ve been finding I...
2018-05-14
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SQL Server Management Studio Intermittently Hangs Browsing a Database
If you’re seeing SSMS hang/lock timeouts when expanding nodes in the object explorer for a database it’s almost definitely caused...
2018-05-13
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SQL Server Corruption - Bring Order Out Of Chaos
I wanted to document a couple of important tasks you should be doing as part of your SQL Server maintenance/backup...
2018-05-12
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SQL Server Database Snapshots
What Are They
Database snapshots are a readonly point in time version of a database. You can use them for things...
2018-05-11
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SQL Server Partition Swapping
When working with large amounts of data in ETL jobs it can often can sink a lot of time inserting...
2018-05-10
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SQL Server Snapshot vs Read Committed Snapshot
For a quick introduction to transaction isolation levels see my previous post on them.
Once snapshot isolation is enabled on a...
2018-05-08
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SQL Server Why Isn't My Transaction Log Truncating
The Transaction log growing is completely normal however there are situations where a transaction log can get to a state...
2018-05-07
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SQL Server Trace Flags
Trace Flags are a way to change the behavior of the SQL Server database engine. They are often used for...
2018-05-06
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Avoid Errors With using SNAPSHOT Isolation From Transactions Under Different Isolation Levels
For older systems where the move to READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT (RCSI) might not be an option or you’re running a...
2018-05-05
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Blogs
The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6
No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend...
Forums
Compatibility levels on database changing them and impacts.
We’re running SQL Server 2019 with database compatibility level 150, and after recent tuning...
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers