How to Get a Head Start on Performance Tuning
The problem with performance tuning is that it is commonly considered as secondary to the task at hand rather than...
2011-03-01
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Blog Posts
March Question: What’s Your Biggest SQL Server Performance Headache?
As DBAs, we have all received a phone call from a database user, asking why the database is so slow....
2011-03-01
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta on March 5
I will be attending and speaking at the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta in downtown Denver on March 5, 2011. This...
2011-03-01
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SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 6 Released
Microsoft actually released SQL Server 2008 R2 Cumulative Update 6 on February 21, 2011, so I am a little late...
2011-03-01
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SQLDIY: Alert On Blocking Chains
Continuing the SQLDIY monitoring project we will take a look at tracking blocking events. I actually received a request to...
2011-03-01
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Don’t Be Afraid of Windows Failover Clustering!
One of the more exciting features in SQL Server code-named “Denali” (which is the current official name for the next...
2011-02-28
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JTDS & Grails
Recently I had the chance to do some tuning on a system that was built using Grails (formerly Groovy on...
2011-02-28
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Memory Consumed By SQLServer
Have you wondered how much memory was being consumed by SQL Server? Have you wondered if there was a way...
2011-02-28
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Memory Consumed By SQLServer
Have you wondered how much memory was being consumed by SQL Server? Have you wondered if there was a way to find out that information from a tSQL command?...
2011-02-28
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My Upcoming Schedule, Come Get Your Learn On!
It’s official, I’ll be speaking at SQLSaturday #63 April 2nd. It is something near and dear to my heart, solid state storage....
2011-02-28
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Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
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Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers