How to get alerted anytime SQL Service is restarted?

You may and should have monitoring in place to monitor state of your servers, services, jobs, critical and not critical...

How to find out whether your database is transactional, analytical or hybrid?

If you are a DBA, especially Infrastructure DBA, Production DBA or Operations DBA then you don't necessarily always know what...

Gather Always On Configuration using a DMV query

If you were like me, you would know your AG configuration by heart. However, what if you get busy with...

Check health and status of Availability Group using DMVs

-- Health and status of WSFC cluster. These two queries work only if the WSFC has quorumSELECT*FROMsys.dm_hadr_clusterSELECT*FROMsys.dm_hadr_cluster_members

-- Health of the AGsSELECT...

Get SQL server database size, location and volume info using DMVs

SELECT * FROM sys.master_files AS f 
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_os_volume_stats(f.database_id, f.file_id) v; 

Easy to use WMI commands to query windows system

WMI has been around for a while and it has grown significantly over the years. With Microsoft's focus on powershell,...

SQL query to shrink all log files on sql instance

USE master

exec sp_MSforeachdb '

use [?]
 print ''?''
 print cast(databasepropertyex(''?'', ''Updateability'') as varchar(200))

 if databasepropertyex(''?'', ''Updateability'') = ''READ_WRITE ''

   dbcc shrinkfile(2,1)

'

T-SQL Developer Interview Questions with Answers

What SQL command do you use to pull and filter data from a table ?  

SELECT [Column List] FROM [Table Name]...

GUID or Integer Primary Key?

If you are designing a new data model or maybe you are looking to improve an...

SQL server database size, location and volume info

For one of my clients, I needed to know and document not only database names, size and locations but also...