System Reserved Partition and monitoring
On Windows 2008 R2 , a System Reserved Partition is created. It is 100 MB and acts as a preparatory step...
2011-12-02
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SQL Table variable and temporary table
Table variables and Temporary tables are used interchangeably – but they were designed for different purposes.
Temporary tables were designed for storage...
2011-12-01
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SQL Dirty Pages
Lazy writing , eager writing and checkpoint use asynchronous IO in writing pages to disk. The purpose of asynchronous IO is...
2011-11-28
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Data Loading Performance Guide
Bulk loading with large amounts of data requires strategy. The Data Loading Performance Guide for SQL Server 2008 and SQL...
2011-11-26
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MS DTC and sys.dm_tran_active_transactions
A sql reindex command was being blocked by two active transactions in MS DTC. Use
sys.dm_tran_active_transactions to report more detail on...
2011-11-24
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ALTER INDEX permissions
Developers like to have some control over the development process. An example is index building. Asking aDBA repeatedly for changes ...
2011-11-23
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Monitoring a Rollback and sys.dm_exec_requests
The dynamic management view (DMV) sys.dm_exec_requests returns information about each request that is executing within SQL Server.
Instead of using Activity...
2011-11-22
1,440 reads
Quotename in SQL
Quotename() is a SQL Server String function.
It accepts an input string of of up to 128 characters. Which is a...
2011-11-15
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DBCC CHECKDB
Torn Pages \ Corrupt pages – all in a days work for a DBA. But can anyone tell me how to use...
2011-11-14
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Stored Procedure Checklist
DBAs find it easier to manage large Database Server environments when checklists are used. This Stored procedure checklist will stimulate...
2011-11-10
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Blogs
What’s new in SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.0
Three years ago, when the first public preview of SQL Server 2022 (CTP 2.0)...
Monday Monitor Tips: Beyond SQL Server
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor works with more than SQL Server. Some big changes were announced recently,...
T-SQL REST API Integration in SQL Server 2025: Streamlining T-SQL Snapshot Backups
In this post, I’ll walk you through a T-SQL script that creates application-consistent snapshots...
Forums
Connect tabular model to excel via Power BI semantic model
I have a tabular cube, with myself included in one of the roles. I...
New lightweight pure‑T‑SQL unit‑testing framework (T‑TEST) — feedback welcome
Hi all, I’ve just open‑sourced T‑TEST, a tiny alternative to tSQLt that lives...
Helpful Management Studio Settings and Features
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Helpful Management Studio Settings and...
Question of the Day
The Minimal Linked Server
What is the minimal number of parameters to add a linked server with sp_addlinkedserver?
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