Getting list of protocols enabled in a SQL Server instance
protocols enabled in a SQL Server instance
There are number of ways you can find out what protocols are enable in a SQL Server...
2023-09-01 (first published: 2023-08-31)
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Remotely Check Disks Space, Find Large Files and Remove Old Files - PowerShell
Remotely Check Disks Space, Find Large Files and Remove Old Files - PowerShell
For a very important client, I currently manage over 200 SQL...
2023-08-29
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A Basic SQL Script to Monitor Long Running SQL Server Agent Jobs
A Basic SQL Script to Monitor Long Running SQL Server Agent Jobs
As a SQL Server DBA, especially Production/Operations DBA in a relatively large environment,...
2023-08-16 (first published: 2023-07-31)
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Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Basic Copy-Item cmdletIf you have used some PowerShell, you are probably familiar with Copy-Item...
2023-08-13 (first published: 2023-08-12)
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Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Remotely Copy Files To Multiple Destinations Using PowerShell
Basic Copy-Item cmdletIf you have used some PowerShell, you are probably familiar with Copy-Item...
2023-08-12
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A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
A high level view of the most costly queries by CPU
I want to see at a high level i.e at batch or stored procedure level, not at the individual...
2023-07-31 (first published: 2023-07-13)
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Wait a minute, CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered?
Just to reiterate what's in the title of this post, what I mean is that the CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE indexes are not ordered, while NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE created indexes are on...
2023-07-24 (first published: 2023-07-05)
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Tracking the Inaccurate Cardinality Estimates
Tracking the Inaccurate Cardinality Estimates
When it comes to query performance, lately the Cardinality Estimates seems to have been a hot topic with each new release of SQL...
2023-07-20 (first published: 2023-07-19)
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Reading and searching events inside the SQL Server default trace
Note: SQL Trace and SQL Server Profiler are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. The replacement technology for them is Extended Events. To Learn More: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/sql-trace/sql-trace?view=sql-server-ver16SQL Server...
2023-07-19 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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A Barebone Script To Generate SQL Script to Create Synonyms
A Barebone Script To Generate SQL Script to Create Synonyms
This stored procedure can be used to generate a SQL script to create synonyms for all tables in...
2023-07-12 (first published: 2023-07-10)
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Using a Local Large Language Model (LLM): Interacting with Local LLMs Using PowerShell
As AI continues to evolve, many of us are looking for ways to leverage...
Monday Monitor Tips: Finding the Hostname for Queries
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with a customer recently and they wanted to know which host...
Can AI Read Execution Plans?
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Size of DB on physical disk doesn't match Disk Usage by Table report
Hi everyone I am looking at the size of my db on disk (ie...
Getting the TEXTSIZE
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Getting the TEXTSIZE
How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers