2012-12-11
2,037 reads
Administration
Has tempdb grown since the last restart?
Check tempdb to see if it has been autogrown since the last restart. If it has, there may be an opportunity to improve server performance.
2012-11-20
8,741 reads
Get Rid of All Those Pesky 1 MB File Growth DB Files
Use sp_MSForeEachDB to set all 1 MB file growth databases to 10%.
2013-05-31 (first published: 2012-11-10)
1,457 reads
Check SQL Server Virtual Log Files Using PowerShell
In a previous tip on Monitor Your SQL Server Virtual Log Files with Policy Based Management, we have seen how we can use Policy Based Management to monitor the number of virtual log files (VLFs) in our SQL Server databases. However, even with that most of the solutions I see online involve the creation of temporary tables and/or a combination of using cursors to get the total number of VLFs in a transaction log file. Is there a much easier solution?
2012-10-11
3,321 reads
Shrinking all log files on SQL Server 2008R2
It shrinks all log files for the databases created by users.
2012-11-02 (first published: 2012-09-27)
3,922 reads
2012-09-21
2,330 reads
2012-09-14
3,275 reads
2012-09-11
2,986 reads
SQL Server Uptime
This script is used to get uptime for the SQL Server. (Supports SQL2005 and onwards only)
2012-09-28 (first published: 2012-09-07)
1,441 reads
2012-08-24
2,378 reads
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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