Do Full Backups Break Log Shipping?
TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you Log Ship are NOT also doing log backups in your SQL Maintenance Plans, Ola Jobs,...
2021-10-22 (first published: 2021-10-15)
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How old are those stats?
SQL Server maintains a variety of stats about all sort of performance items. Index usage (or missing indexes) Query performance Corrupt pages Disk IO performance Way more than I...
2021-10-11 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Daily Server Checks (Part 1)
Welcome back to the series “Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs.” So far in this series we’ve taken a look at how to set up your work...
2021-07-06
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Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Prepping for Server Reviews
Welcome back to our series, Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs, where we’ve been taking an in-depth look at how to get ready to perform regular SQL...
2021-06-28 (first published: 2021-06-16)
459 reads
TIL: Backup-DbaDatabase
(This post comes from one of our Junior DBAs – @SQLDork) I’m learning how to use dbatools. Today’s command: Backup-DbaDatabase I’m using the 64-bit PowerShell ISE (running as administrator),...
2021-04-26 (first published: 2020-04-27)
540 reads
Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Client Onboarding (Part 4)
Let’s take a look at the final few steps of your initial server intake process and get your workflow up and running as you push toward performing regular server...
2021-04-05 (first published: 2021-03-25)
315 reads
Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Client Onboarding (Part 3)
The next post of this series is finally ready to fly. I apologize for the delay between posts, but between the rolling blackouts in Texas during the 2021 Snowpaclypse...
2021-03-18 (first published: 2021-03-15)
329 reads
Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Client Onboarding (Part 2)
It’s time for the fourth post in my series about performing regular server reviews. In the first post, we took a look at setting up your local environment. The...
2021-02-09
31 reads
Your SQL Servers Are Misconfigured...
It's probably not your fault, but relying on the defaults of a SQL Server installation might be impacting the performance of your instance.
2021-02-05 (first published: 2018-11-01)
7,199 reads
Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Client Onboarding (Part 1)
Welcome back to my ongoing series about how we perform regular server reviews here at Dallas DBAs, and the tips and tricks I’ve picked up in my first 1.5...
2021-02-03
31 reads
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Displaying Money
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