Baseline SQL Server with SQL Sentry Performance Advisor
Baselines can be any set of metrics that have been recorded to give you an understanding of what is the...
2013-06-24
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SQL Server 365
Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
We all dread the scenario whereby SQL Server is under so much load and has a complete lack of resources...
2013-05-29 (first published: 2013-05-23)
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Object Qualification
I came across an interesting issue recently with NHibernate, now it is widely known I despise ORM’s, in my experience...
2013-05-22 (first published: 2013-05-15)
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DTA and Hypothetical Indexes
For those of you that don’t know DTA stands for Database Engine Tuning Adviser and is available from the Tools...
2013-05-15 (first published: 2013-05-09)
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SQL Server Hardware and Acronyms
Over the weekend I finished reading yet another Red Gate book, this one was SQL Server Hardware by Glenn Berry...
2013-05-07
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Index Tuning
This week I've been carrying out some performance tuning of some of the more intensive procedures in one of our environments. Using...
2013-03-21 (first published: 2013-03-14)
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Cost Threshold for Parallelism
Parallelism, where to start? Well let’s start right at the beginning shall we with the question, what is parallelism? Simply...
2013-02-26
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Fun with dates
Every year me and a group of friends attend the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford, for us it...
2013-02-17
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T-SQL Gotcha
I came across an interesting issue a few days ago that I thought I would blog about. The issue is...
2013-02-15
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Script Replication with PowerShell
I promised you some PowerShell scripts this year and this post is the first one. I can see the value...
2013-02-14
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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SQLPS and syspolicy_purge_history job
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Be Wary of Data
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;