Reading and searching events inside the SQL Server default trace

Note: SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. The replacement technology for them is Extended Events. To Learn More: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sql-trace/sql-trace?view=sql-server-ver16SQL Server...

Wait a minute, CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered?

Just to reiterate what's in the title of this post, what I mean is that the CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered, while NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE created indexes are on...

List Top Tables in SQL Server Database by Size

There are countless queries you can find on internet to get list of tables, size of database, tables, indexes etc...  Here is a one that I have used for...

What Do You Look for in an Execution Plan?

Say, you have a query having performance issues and you decide to look it's graphical execution plan in SSMS (or other tools). If you are lucky, right off the...

Find out how fast is your SQL database growing using the backup metadata from msdb

Sometimes I need to know how fast a database is growing, or which particular database is growing the most out of all the databases on a SQL instance.   Now...

Monitor SQL replication subscriptions synchronization status

In your current role if you are managing a SQL server replication setup, you are probably well aware that if any of the subscriber is not getting synchronized within...

Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode

While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model, and to compliment it I also have monitoring in place if transaction log doesn't get...

Getting most recent transaction log backup time irrespective of where the transaction log backup is performed in always on availability groups

I should mention outright that this post applies to SQL Server version 2016 and up.Over the years I have relied on the backup history tables in msdb to check...

Getting most recent transaction log backup time irrespective of where the transaction log backup is performed in always on availability groups

Most recent transaction log backup in always on availability groups

I should mention outright...

How to get the Active Directory user password policy values

Recently I have had to troubleshoot quite a bit of SQL login issues and often times the issue was with the users active directory user account.I was aware the...