Combating the CXPacket Wait Type
Often, when DBAs are looking at total wait statistics on the servers they manage, CXPacket is at or near the top of...
2015-03-24 (first published: 2015-03-17)
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Adam Kreul | Blog
Making Sense of PCIe SSD Use with SQL Server
When Fusion IO burst onto the scene in 2007, offering a PCIe card that was said to be able to...
2015-03-16 (first published: 2015-03-10)
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Configuring a Complete Memory Dump
Imagine this scenario: One of your servers just crashed, and you open a ticket with Microsoft for them to perform...
2014-11-06
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Database Maintenance Plans: A Primer
Databases and newborns have a lot in common. They both require constant care. They both require constant monitoring. They also...
2014-10-20 (first published: 2014-10-14)
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Why I’m Not Excited About Hekaton (In-Memory OLTP)
A while back I had written a post about why I’m excited about Hekaton (now called ‘In-Memory OLTP’ – not sure...
2014-09-22 (first published: 2014-09-17)
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A CLR Application: Deleting Three Billion Rows
In one of SQL Server Central’s recent daily newsletters, Steve Jones’s editorial was inquiring whether or not anyone has been...
2014-03-06
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Fight Career Frustration With Learning
If you work in IT, the office becomes your second home. It’s where we make a living, and most of...
2014-03-11 (first published: 2014-02-28)
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I’m on Twitter! @AdamKreul
I’m just a little late to the party, but no time like the present, right? I plan to be very...
2014-02-15
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Make Your Storage Administrator Your Best Friend
That guy or gal over there going on and on about spindles and IOPS – that’s your SAN admin. For the...
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-12)
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Configuring the RecycleTime SSRS Setting
If you administer a SQL Server Reporting Services server, chances are you’ve had users complain the report manager is loading...
2013-11-07
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Blogs
Choosing to not drive the Tesla
By Steve Jones
I started a short thread on Twitter/X and Bluesky recently after leaving the Tesla...
Advice I Like: Transactions and Relationships
By Steve Jones
Life gets better as you replace transactions with relationships. – from Excellent Advice for...
Free PostgreSQL Performance Monitoring with pgNow
I’ve been putting together a new PostgreSQL session called “Performance Monitoring for the Absolute...
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Understanding Bit Manipulation Functions: BIT_COUNT, GET_BIT, and SET_BIT in SQL Server 2022
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Mixed Backups
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Or condition in where clause works differently in MS SQL comparing with Sybase
Hello, I ran below statements in MS SQL, and got error, but fine in...
Question of the Day
Mixed Backups
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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