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
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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
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