Query to Email….Well Formatted Email
When I get alerts from SQL Server I want it to do three things for me. Tell me what’s wrong, show me the data, then tell me how to...
2025-04-10
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Simple SQL Server
Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage...
2016-06-01
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Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage was over. The big deal wasn’t that it didn’t...
2016-06-01
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File Growths
I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files. Then I talked about growing...
2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-29)
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File Growths
I hinted at file growths in my previous posts about shrinking data and log files. Then I talked about growing log files in my post Database Log VLFs. However,...
2016-03-29
16 reads
Database Growth Trends – Idera Diagnostic Manager
How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on...
2016-03-21
645 reads
Database Growth Trends – Idera Diagnostic Manager
How fast are your databases growing? Should I panic about a 1 TB database that has 100 GB free on disk? Am I safe with a 100 GB database...
2016-03-21
14 reads
Multiserver Queries
You can run queries against multiple servers at once, and it’s quite useful for a number of reasons. I use...
2016-03-14
710 reads
Multiserver Queries
Setting up registered servers and practical uses of multiserver queries in SSMS.
2016-03-14
13 reads
Recompile Monitoring using XEvents
Recompiles can be a hidden bottleneck on your server, and it may not be too obvious. I should know, it...
2016-03-17 (first published: 2016-03-07)
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Blogs
A Prompt AI Experiment
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Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
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Scaling PowerShell – Lessons from a Technical Interview
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Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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