Why Blog?
The main reason I started blogging was a community thing. I leeched from the community to get me to where...
2013-09-04
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The main reason I started blogging was a community thing. I leeched from the community to get me to where...
2013-09-04
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What is Page Life Expectancy (PLE), what makes it drop, and how can I manage memory better? Abusing disks slows...
2013-08-20 (first published: 2013-08-19)
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I’ll be presenting at SQL Saturday 250 in Pittsburgh on Baselining and Monitoring. This is my first public presentation, and...
2013-08-20
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The dmv sys.dm_os_performance_counters is awesome, if you can understand it. This is how I make it easy to read and...
2013-08-13
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Deadlocks are rough to work with. Here are the scripts I use to capture deadlocks, find which ones are reoccurring,...
2013-08-06
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It’s not too uncommon for a query to get a new execution plan that performs a lot worse than it...
2013-06-24 (first published: 2013-06-19)
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A user calls to say the app or server is slow today. Here’s a quick summary of how I get...
2013-06-20
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Capturing information is useless unless you know how to use it. Here’s what I use to get the most out...
2013-06-18
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SQL Server tracing is essential for troubleshooting performance issues, yet it can put loads on your server that would cause...
2013-06-16
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According to Jason Strate (SQL Server MVP) there are 5 white papers ever SQL Server DBA should read. Considering my...
2013-06-01
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By James Serra
(Shameless plug: The price of my book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern...
By Steve Jones
I was working with a customer and discussing how to do error handling. This...
By DataOnWheels
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few...
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I have a small test sandbox database on an instance with default master, model, msdb, and tempdb settings. The database has these files:I now run this command:
DBCC CLONEDATABASE(sandbox, sandbox_clone); GOWhen I examine the database file properties, what do they show? See possible answers