Sometimes I find remembering where a particular server sends its backups to a nightmare. You might have servers backing up to different locations, you might have different locations for...
2022-06-16
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Imagine that we’re seeing very heavy load on our SQL server, be it CPU or IO and we need to find out which database is the driver. I’m sure...
2022-05-11 (first published: 2022-05-03)
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I’m going to assume that most people will have at least heard of Brent Ozar’s brilliant First Responder Kit. If you haven’t then you’ve been missing out on some...
2022-02-09
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Spinlock contention is always a real headache to deal with. I recently saw an issue when spinlock contention on SOS_CACHESTORE was making the server virtually unresponsive. The issue was...
2021-11-15 (first published: 2021-11-03)
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Here’s an interesting issue that recently came up. We were seeing very high compilations and recompilations on a server to the point that it started causing us some very...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-19)
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It look like we had a little bug in sp_RestoreScript that was putting a rogue 0 after the backup file name. That’s now been fixed in 1.9. For information...
2021-09-16
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This is something that comes up time and time again. A developer or member of the service desk comes up to me and says “SQL’s timing out, you see...
2021-07-27
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As always the code can be found here in our github repoWe updated our sample report here We forgot to mention V2.5! We added the ability to add Thresholds...
2021-07-23
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We all had those calls, it’s the middle of the night and we get that phone call that a customer is getting error messages due to their tempDB being...
2021-06-30 (first published: 2021-06-18)
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For one reason or another data security and encryption has been coming up quite a bit in my day to day work recently and I’ve started to realise that...
2021-05-21 (first published: 2021-05-17)
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This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers