Quick tip: Using sp_server_diagnostics
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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Blog Posts
SQL 2005 or above – Find Transaction Rate on a busy OLTP Database
Change Database name of a below mentioned query
DECLARE @cntr_value1 bigint
DECLARE @cntr_value2 bigint
SELECT ‘BEFORE’
SELECT @cntr_value1 = cntr_value
FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
WHERE counter_name = ‘transactions/sec’
AND object_name = ‘SQLServer:Databases’
AND...
2013-04-11
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.3: DMX Prediction Queries
by Steve Bolton
In the last two installments of this series of amateur self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM),...
2013-04-10 (first published: 2013-04-01)
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DMV-6 : How well my store procedure doing ?……..sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats
sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats DMV (Dynamic Management View), described by BOL as follows : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280701.aspx
Returns aggregate performance statistics for cached stored procedures. The view...
2013-04-10
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Find SQL Server Installation – Date and Time – 2005 Onwards
SELECT create_date as ‘SQL Server Install Date’ FROM sys.server_principals WHERE name=’NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’
2013-04-10
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Las Vegas April 2013 UG Meeting
AlwaysOn – Finally, A usable ‘mirror’! In the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) had many limitations. Clustering and Mirroring are great, but the mirror/secondary database is not...
2013-04-10
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Las Vegas April 2013 UG Meeting
AlwaysOn – Finally, A usable ‘mirror’!
In the past, High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) had many limitations. Clustering and Mirroring are...
2013-04-10
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PowerShell – Pattern Search – Local or Remote Folder
#Description : List all the files of a local or remote drive, run this PowerShell script using PowerShell-ISE.exe for better execution...
2013-04-10
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SQL Server 2000 is unsupported
Microsoft no longer supports SQL Server 2000 in any capacity.
http://youtu.be/A5cneCgNA9U
2013-04-10
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SSRS Map Label Overlap Fixed
In Reporting Services 2008 r2 and above there is a great tool called the Map tool. It is great for...
2013-04-10
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Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
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Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers