When Page Prefetching Takes a Back Seat – Exploring Trace Flag 652 in SQL Server
Learn how a trace flag affects SQL Server reading from disk and where this might be a useful thing for you to enable.
2025-09-24
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Storage Management
2025-04-21
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Do We Care About Disks?
I ran across a tip on MSSQLTips from Joe Gavin recently, and it got me thinking about hardware and disks. For a lot of us, we deal with servers and storage, and not disks. While we might have a disk on a laptop or desktop, most of the production systems just attach to remote storage. […]
2021-11-03
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The State of Data Growth
Data continues to grow at incredible rates. That's good for those of us that make a living with data.
2021-09-11
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Storage 101: The Language of Storage
Robert Sheldon continues his series on storage. This article covers some of the basics of performance metrics, HDDs, and SSDs.
2020-02-10
Storage 101: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Storage
Understanding all the storage options available to...
2019-12-30
DBA Walkthrough – Adding space on IBM AIX Power Machines
Learn how to manage storage/filesystems on IBM AIX - Power machines. Learn from this demo of expanding a filesytem on AIX so that your DBA's get a high level overview of how AIX storage management works.
2019-05-21
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Check Used Table Space for User Defined Tables
Query the System Tables to find the space usage, which helps Database Administrators identify the Tables that are using the most space.
2012-07-11 (first published: 2012-07-04)
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Disk space alert per drive
This script validates the sufficient disk space per drive.
When you'll reach a minimum on a diskdrive, the script will mail all recipients.
2011-12-07 (first published: 2011-10-28)
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Reliable Storage Systems for SQL Server
By validating the IO path before commissioning the production database system, and performing ongoing validation through page checksums and DBCC checks, you can hopefully avoid data corruption altogether, or at least nip it in the bud. If corruption occurs, then you have to take the right decisions fast to deal with it. Rod Colledge explains how a pessimistic mindset can be an advantage
2010-06-03
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers