I was at a client where they are using non-Microsoft clustering technology to achieve the high availability of SQL Server instances....
2019-06-26 (first published: 2019-06-13)
1,701 reads
This is actually part of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there...
2019-06-19 (first published: 2019-06-06)
1,204 reads
We know that indexes are necessary for query performance but comes with overhead during DML operations. Usually, the overhead is worth the performance gain we get out of them....
2019-06-10 (first published: 2019-05-21)
845 reads
If you are running a DATABASE BACKUP or RESTORE command manually, SQL Server will show you the progress at a specified % completion interval. For the BACKUP, the default is...
2019-06-03 (first published: 2019-05-16)
914 reads
The purpose of this query is to find identical duplicate non-clustered indexes i.e. indexes on same table with same columns in same order. If you have a need to...
2019-05-30 (first published: 2019-05-15)
853 reads
Deadlocks are usually detected and resolved automatically by SQL Server by killing one of the SPIDs involved in it. You may have an alert setup to notify you and/or users...
2019-05-14 (first published: 2019-05-01)
515 reads
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...
2019-04-30 (first published: 2019-04-17)
1,540 reads