Check if any database has auditing configured
Here is a DMV script to check whether a or any database has the auditing configured and running, along with...
2018-09-18
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Find Orphaned databases in SQL Server
Do you ever wonder if there are any databases in your environment that may just be there but not being...
2018-09-18
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DMV To List Foreign Keys With No Index
I was entrusted with a new database for a critical application that was having general performance issue and the CPU...
2018-05-10
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How To Audit Data Changes In SQL Server?
Scenario:
I was at a new client, with their previous and only DBA / DEVELOPER/ MASTER OF ALL of 8 years all...
2018-05-10
9,872 reads
How to get alerted anytime SQL Service is restarted?
You may and should have monitoring in place to monitor state of your servers, services, jobs, critical and not critical...
2018-04-27
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Check health and status of Availability Group using DMVs
-- Health and status of WSFC cluster. These two queries work only if the WSFC has quorumSELECT*FROMsys.dm_hadr_clusterSELECT*FROMsys.dm_hadr_cluster_members
-- Health of the AGsSELECT...
2018-04-26
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Gather Always On Configuration using a DMV query
If you were like me, you would know your AG configuration by heart. However, what if you get busy with...
2018-04-26
360 reads
How to find out whether your database is transactional, analytical or hybrid?
If you are a DBA, especially Infrastructure DBA, Production DBA or Operations DBA then you don't necessarily always know what...
2018-04-26
392 reads
Get SQL server database size, location and volume info using DMVs
SELECT * FROM sys.master_files AS f
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_os_volume_stats(f.database_id, f.file_id) v;
2018-04-23
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2018-04-20
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Collation errors...what is best way to deal with it?
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Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch in SQL Server 2022? See possible answers