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
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
By SQLPals
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
Happy Thanksgiving! (USA Holiday)
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...
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Which Object Definitions Are Available?
For which of these object types can I get the code when I run the OBJECT_DEFINITION() function in SQL Server 2025? (choose 3)
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