Quick tip: WMI alerts and SQL Server Agent permissions.
I came across an issue today while trying to create a WMI alert for a mirroring state change. The error...
2013-08-15
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I came across an issue today while trying to create a WMI alert for a mirroring state change. The error...
2013-08-15
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SQL Server 2014 CTP is available for download and evaluation and it contains a couple of exciting performance enhancements. One...
2013-07-08
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I was asked a good question the other day, one that I wasn’t sure of the answer. The question was...
2013-05-22
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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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I’ve been looking into the behaviour of statistics in SQL Server 2008 – so I’d like to present an overview from...
2013-02-20 (first published: 2013-02-14)
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Introduction:
I came across a couple of subtle gotchas around the permissions required to restore a database in SQL Server 2008+...
2013-01-10
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There’s a lot of things to consider when migrating databases between SQL Server instances. I want to provide some tips...
2012-11-26 (first published: 2012-11-13)
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Actually I’m not sure if anyone still believes this anymore. If you read the BOL description carefully it states that...
2012-11-02 (first published: 2012-10-31)
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Here are a couple of quick database and table level queries that I have found useful lately.
How many rows in...
2012-10-30
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A question that a DBA will often be asked is what databases are actively being used on my SQL Server?...
2012-10-17
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By DataOnWheels
Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk...
By Steve Jones
apolytus– n. the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing...
If you've ever wrestled with complex SQL code, you know the drill. Hours spent...
I have a job running each night starting at 4:30AM and usually finishing at...
hi guys, I have a partitioned table AM_ITM_INSTNC_MSS and I want to get...
This is one I haven't seen before. I'm trying to drop a database user...
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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