SQLServerCentral Runs sp_Blitz - Reliability

The second article that examines the output of the sp_Blitz script™ run against SQLServerCentral's database servers.

SQLServerCentral Runs sp_Blitz - Security

A series that looks at the SQLServerCentral database servers using the Brent Ozar Unlimited sp_blitz script. Read about what we learned.

Happy Holidays 2012

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Happy Thanksgiving 2012

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Labor Day 2012

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Happy Fourth of July 2012

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SSC Clinic: Can Implementing "Optimize for Ad Hoc Queries" Boost Performance for the SQLServerCentral.com and Simple-Talk.Com SQL Servers?

With the introduction of the instance-level option “optimize for ad hoc workloads” in SQL Server 2008, DBAs have a tool to deal with a problem known as plan cache pollution, or plan cache bloat. It’s often caused when one-time use ad hoc queries are sent to SQL Server from Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) solutions, such as LINQ, NHibernate, or Entity Framework. The problem can prevent SQL Server from using its available memory optimally, potentially hurting performance.

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