Toolbox - Fix Your FILEGROWTH
One of the items we usually flag in reports is FILEGROWTH by percentage. It doesn't help that for most versions...
2017-10-10 (first published: 2017-10-05)
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Nebraska SQL from @DBA_ANDY
Come See Me in Minnesota in October!
The schedule for SQL Saturday #682 Minnesota 2017 is out, and I will be giving my talk on Extended Events:
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Getting...
2017-09-14
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Toolbox - IO, IO, Why are You So Slow?
This is the next in a series of blogs I am going to create talking about useful tools (mostly scripts)...
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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The Transient Database Snapshot Has Been Marked Suspect
Yet another tale from the ticket queue...
The DBCC CheckDB was failing on INSTANCE99 and after some investigation it looked like...
2017-09-07 (first published: 2017-08-24)
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Sudden Differential Backup Failures after an Availability Group Failover
As so many stories do, this story starts with a failover - in this case an Availability Group (AG) failover.
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There were...
2017-07-24
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Toolbox - Which Tables are Using All of My Space?
This is the next in a new series of blogs I am going to create talking about useful tools (mostly...
2017-07-21
489 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #92 - Trust But Verify
It's T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this month the host is Raul Gonzalez (blog/@SQLDoubleG). His chosen topic is Lessons Learned...
2017-07-21 (first published: 2017-07-11)
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Toolbox - Where Did All My Space Go?
This is the first in a new series of blogs I am going to create talking about useful tools (mostly...
2017-07-14 (first published: 2017-07-03)
2,174 reads
9003 is a Scary Number
My last post talked about 9002 errors and how they *might* be corruption.
Recently I moved up to the next consecutive...
2017-06-21
1,985 reads
It's Just Another 9002...another error like all the rest...
11:30pm on a Saturday night, and the pager went off…
Error: 5901, Severity: 16, State: 1.One or more recovery units belonging...
2017-05-05
1,829 reads
Blogs
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
Microsoft Build 2026 announcements
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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