Capture Index Usage Statistics for Better Analysis

Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft introduced Dynamic Management Views to help DBAs see what's going inside of SQL Server....

Which SQL Instance is Killing Your CPU?

You have 5 instances running.  How do you know which one is killing your CPU?

As you can see from Windows...

Grant Execute Permission on All Stored Procedures

Right out of the box, SQL Server makes it pretty easy to grant SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE to all...

How to Make SQL Server Listen on Multiple Ports

Have you ever needed an instance of SQL Server to listen on multiple TCP/IP port numbers but didn't know how...

Use Powershell to Manage Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager

Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager (or as I call it "SQLdm") is a great monitoring and performance tuning tool that I...

Welcome to Everday SQL

My name is Patrick Keisler and I have been a Microsoft SQL Server DBA for over 12 years.  During that...