Spring 2010 Hardware Recommendations
Since I am very interested in various PC-based hardware, and I make an effort to stay current on new developments,...
2010-05-04
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Glenn Berry
Register For 24 Hours of PASS Event
The free 24 Hours of PASS event will be held on May 19-20, and includes 24 different one hour presentations...
2010-05-03
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Recap of April 2010 DMV a Day Series
Well, I managed to finish up my series that featured a DMV query every day during the month of April....
2010-05-03
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A DMV A Day – Day 30
The DMV for Day 30 is sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the data pages that...
2010-04-30
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A DMV a Day – Day 29
The DMV for Day 29 is sys.dm_exec_connections, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about the connections established to this...
2010-04-29
2,907 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 28
The DMV for Day 28 is sys.dm_io_pending_io_requests, which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for each pending I/O request...
2010-04-28
1,254 reads
SQL Server 2008 and 2008R2 Diagnostic Information Queries
Since SQL Server 2008 R2 has gone RTM, and will be available on MSDN Subscribers on May 3, I thought...
2010-04-27
1,928 reads
A DMV a Day – Day 27
The DMV for Day 27 is sys.dm_tran_locks, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about currently active lock manager resources....
2010-04-27
7,541 reads
SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (April 2010)
Since SQL Server 2008 R2 has gone RTM, and will soon be available for purchase, I am going to be...
2010-04-26
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A DMV a Day – Day 26
Well, we are on the final week of the DMV a Day series for the month of April. I will...
2010-04-26
1,613 reads
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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