Things SQL Server Setup Doesn’t Do – And Should
Brent Ozar on questions that SQL Server setup wizard should ask you, by default, to help you protect the data
2019-05-31
Brent Ozar on questions that SQL Server setup wizard should ask you, by default, to help you protect the data
2019-05-31
One of the more challenging components to configure on SQL Server is SQL Mail. I don’t know how many times I have had to try it multiple times before...
2019-05-14
Max Vernon shows how you can automatically expand log files to optimize VLF counts: SQL Server Database Log file expansion can be fairly tedious if you need to make...
2019-05-14
Anyone who has been either a kid or a parent has probably heard this story before. The child is sent to clean their room, which to your eyes looks...
2019-05-11
Suppose you want to or need to know anytime your SQL Server is experiencing blocking where queries are being blocked and it may or may not escalate to a...
The...
2019-04-17
A database can be offline at the time that you take over responsibility of the database. You will be asked when it was taken offline. This script will help...
The...
2019-04-15
There’s a lot of discussion about preventing downtime. As a DBA and IT professional, it’s my sworn duty to prevent downtime. I usually describe my job as DBA something...
2019-04-15
In my last post I discussed the fact that SQL Ids can, in fact, be useful on an instance that ... Continue reading
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2019-04-15
By default, when you run a query in SQL Server, your delete/update/insert (DUI) is finished as soon as your query finishes. That’s because the default behavior of SQL Server is IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS OFF – meaning, SQL Server doesn’t hold your queries open waiting for a COMMIT or ROLLBACK.
2018-03-14
3,761 reads
Changing a data type seems like a simple task unless the table is quite large and downtime must be kept to a minimum. Danny Kruge walks you through the process he created to change an INT to a BIGINT in a large table.
2018-03-13
10,620 reads
By Will Assaf
I recently reviewed, worked on, and added a similar example to the DATETIMEOFFSET Microsoft...
Database administrators (DBAs) are the backbone of data-driven organizations. If you're looking to break...
By Brian Kelley
Another security fundamentals topic is authentication versus authorization. For those who have a clear...
I have a SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition on CU 25. It has in-memory...
Experts, I am learning some skills so I can troubleshoot some performance-related issues. I...
What happens when I run this code:
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