SQL Server Monitoring: What queries should you monitor?
I previously wrote about measuring wait statistics. This matters a lot, because you can track historically what wait statistics are...
2019-02-02
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"A connection timeout has occurred on a previously established connection to availability replica"
I previously spent some time troubleshooting this issue at one client, and then having encountered it twice more this year, I figured I'd include it in a blog post....
2019-02-01
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Modern Hardware with 64 CPUs
In today’s world, more often then not you might run into systems that have large beefy hardware. Hundreds of gigabytes...
2019-02-21 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 2
Note: I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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Financial Advice for Techies
I’m not writing a post here on how to manage your money, but I will point you to Troy Hunt’s...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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How many plans are in the plan cache for a stored procedure?
It depends on where you’re looking and how many statements are in the stored procedure.
Let’s take a look at some...
2019-01-31
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How Does DBCC CHECKIDENT Really Work When Resetting the Identity Seed (RESEED)?
(last updated: 2019-01-31 @ 22:45 EST / 2019-02-01 @ 03:45 UTC )
Today’s “Question of the Day” on SQL Server Central, Cleaning up the...
2019-02-20 (first published: 2019-01-31)
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Azure Notebooks – a nice little tool.
Gday,
I’ve been playing with Azure notebooks lately and have found them invaluable as
A teaching aidA test sandboxI’ve been using Python...
2019-01-31
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How To Check How Far Behind Your SQL Server Log Shipping Secondary Is
Log shipping is one of the simplest and most bulletproof methods to get SQL Server to replicate data to a...
2019-02-21 (first published: 2019-01-31)
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Index maintenance freebies
I didn’t expect anything for free in index maintenance. After all, it takes a lot of CPU and transaction log...
2019-02-20 (first published: 2019-01-30)
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Blogs
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
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Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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