A DMV a Day – Day 14
The DMV for Day 14 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-14
783 reads
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Microsoft Changing Their Lifecycle Support Policy
Microsoft’s Bob Ward has a new post up on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog about a change in their...
2010-04-14
1,726 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 13
The DMV for Day 13 is sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns I/O statistics for data and log files....
2010-04-13
1,194 reads
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM Available and Installed
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie had a good post up yesterday that highlights some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010....
2010-04-13
507 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 12
The DMV for Day 12 is sys.dm_db_partition_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns page and row-count information for every partition...
2010-04-12
844 reads
Visual Studio 2010 Download Interruptus
Microsoft has made the RTM bits for the various versions and components of Visual Studio 2010 available on MSDN Subscribers...
2010-04-12
335 reads
2010-04-11
1,577 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 10
Just in case you’ve just joined me, I decided on April 1 to post a different DMV query every day...
2010-04-10
1,827 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 9
The DMV for Day 9 is sys.dm_os_schedulers, which is described by BOL as:
Returns one row per scheduler in SQL Server...
2010-04-09
961 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 8
We have two related DMVs for Day 8. The first one is sys.dm_fts_active_catalogs, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information...
2010-04-08
1,250 reads
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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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