SQLServerDBA News - 2011 Review for SQLServerDBA
2011 was a great year on a personal and professional level
1) Completed the Brighton Marathon in 4hrs 36 secs
2) Blogged...
2011-12-31
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- Interests: Performance Tuning Database Servers, Running and Coffee
Top 10 SQL Server Posts for 2011
2011 is nearly over. It’s time to list the Top 10 viewed SQLServer-DBA.com posts for the year , based on Views.
System...
2011-12-24
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Routing OSPF and Network Team
After a server move to the failover Data Centre – a file copy between the two sites slowed down by 6x. ...
2011-12-21
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Nic Teaming
Network card teaming or NIC teaming are networking terms describing methods of combining multiple parallel network connections . The main purposes...
2011-12-14
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CPU Count
I document the CPU Count for SQL Server inventory management.
Using a powershell script , iterate through all the SQL Servers and...
2011-12-13
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SQL Traces and c2 auditing are different
Sometimes end users interchange the terms : C2 auditing and Traces.
They server different purposes.
c2 auditing records all attempts (successfull and...
2011-12-12
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SQL Database Status with sys.databases
I was creating a Powershell script for a SQL Server checkout procedure after a reboot , and used the state_desc column...
2011-12-09
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SQL Server Latency
Latency is the time delay measure in the system. SQL Server can only be as fast as the slowest component...
2011-12-07
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DATEADD and variables in SQL
To make the T-SQL function DATEADD more dynamic use variables. The example below , accepts an input parameter , in this case...
2011-12-06
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Enable XA transactions for SQL Server
An XA transaction is a global transaction usually covering multiple resources.
Use the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver to support the ...
2011-12-05
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Compare rows within the same table
I have a table. Structure in script below. I have to compare and see...
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers