Mission Critical: SQL Server 2008 General Maintenance

This document contains steps that will assist you in the day-to-day SQL Server 2008 RTM Enterprise Edition (non-clustered) operations. It defines the basics of standard maintenance and checks for a single Instance of SQL Server 2008, and should be used as a starting point.

SQL Server Lazy Writer Issue: Warning, No Free Buffers Found

This tip is intended to help someone who is or will be facing a no free buffer found issue with the SQL Server LazyWriter. Recently, we experienced some unknown issues with our SQL Server and after inspecting the error log file we noticed the following errors: "SQL Server has encountered 50 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file..." and "LazyWriter: warning, no free buffers found." These error messages were followed by a SQL Server memory dump file like SQLDump0030.mdmp in the file system.

ServerProperty query with case function

Returns all properties from ServerProperty, also has a case function for EditionID and EngineEdition.

Unused Objects in the Server

This Script is used to List out the objects lying in the box which were un used from the day of the sql server recycled.

Managing Data Growth in SQL Server

'Help, my database ate my disk drives!'. Many DBAs spend most of their time dealing with variations of the problem of database processes consuming too much disk space. This happens because of errors such as incorrect configurations for recovery models, data growth for large objects and queries that overtax TempDB resources. Rodney describes, with some feeling, the errors that can lead to this sort of crisis for the working DBA, and their solution.

Find tables unused since last SQL Server restart

This script will return tables that haven't had any user activity since the SQL Server Service was last restarted. SQL 2005+

Exec scripts in a group of databases

Easily execute your scripts in a set of databases

Best Practice for renaming a SQL Server Database

One of the Junior SQL Server Database Administrator in my company approached me yesterday with a dilemma. He was assigned a task to rename few of the databases in Beta and Production environments; the reason being the database name was based on some other project that is no longer relevant to the data which is presently stored within the database. At first I started to tell him, but figured it would be smarter to document the same and share the information.

Finding the Compatibility Level

How to Connect to a SQL 2005 Server When You Are Completely Locked Out

If you need to connect to a SQL server and don't have the 'sa' password plus the builtin\administrators account has been removed then Rudy Panigas shows us what you need to know.