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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- Interests: Performance Tuning Database Servers, Running and Coffee
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 First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers