Quick tip: WMI alerts and SQL Server Agent permissions.
I came across an issue today while trying to create a WMI alert for a mirroring state change. The error...
2013-08-15
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I came across an issue today while trying to create a WMI alert for a mirroring state change. The error...
2013-08-15
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SQL Server 2014 CTP is available for download and evaluation and it contains a couple of exciting performance enhancements. One...
2013-07-08
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I was asked a good question the other day, one that I wasn’t sure of the answer. The question was...
2013-05-22
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In SQL Server 2012 a new procedure sp_server_diagnostics returns a payload of information about server health and performance. The sproc...
2013-04-11 (first published: 2013-04-03)
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I’ve been looking into the behaviour of statistics in SQL Server 2008 – so I’d like to present an overview from...
2013-02-20 (first published: 2013-02-14)
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Introduction:
I came across a couple of subtle gotchas around the permissions required to restore a database in SQL Server 2008+...
2013-01-10
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There’s a lot of things to consider when migrating databases between SQL Server instances. I want to provide some tips...
2012-11-26 (first published: 2012-11-13)
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Actually I’m not sure if anyone still believes this anymore. If you read the BOL description carefully it states that...
2012-11-02 (first published: 2012-10-31)
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Here are a couple of quick database and table level queries that I have found useful lately.
How many rows in...
2012-10-30
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A question that a DBA will often be asked is what databases are actively being used on my SQL Server?...
2012-10-17
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I hosted this month, late as it turns out, but we still had a...
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I'm speaking on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's scheduled for...
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I had a customer recently reach out to ask if SQL Clone would work...
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While doing some housekeeping activity on several old but large production databases, I come...
How important to SQL Server is the speed of the SSD and network latency?...
In SQL Server 2022, how many backup files can I have in a striped backup?
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