The log-bigger-than-database check is one of my favorite recent additions. I can't believe how often it comes up, and it's something I never would have thought to check for...

GSquared (1/10/2013)

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Can I call this proc recursive? Under the headings of Performance, it shows some problems coming up from proc sp_Blitz. 🙂

[master].[dbo].[sp_Blitz] has WITH RECOMPILE in the stored procedure...

PAH-440118 (1/10/2013)

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One point: You refer to making SA the database owner. I agree this should be set to a suitable account but I was always of the opinion that the...

Hi! Brent here. If you're the kind of person who learns best by reading, I'd check out the book Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications on VMware vSphere. I'm typing this from...

No, I mean follow up on the error. Check all of the event logs described in our troubleshooting checklist:

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2011/12/sql-server-troubleshooting-checklist/

Go through all of those, and the error's going...

OK, great, that's one start. Now can you follow up with the rest?

No, you can't ignore the error. 😀 Check all of the event logs described in our troubleshooting checklist:

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2011/12/sql-server-troubleshooting-checklist/

Go through all of those, and the error's going to show...

inteledyne (6/7/2012)

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Switching the last partition in the 6 month filegroup to the archive filegroup will cause a complete index rebuild on the whole archive table? can i prevent that from...

There's a fundamental problem with your diagram: you've got tables tied directly to files. Tables are never assigned to files - nothing is ever assigned to files. Objects...

rmechaber (5/1/2012)

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So, while I've got your attention: is there any? miniscule? significant? write-performance hit in writing to a 2-drive mirror compared to writing the same data to a single disk...

rmechaber (5/1/2012)

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But I don't understand why a hardware-based RAID controller doesn't simply pipe the same data off to 2 disks simultaneously, reducing the write-time penalty to something much less than...

Greg - good post, but the explanation of IOPs is not correct. You write:

In basic terms IOPS is a measurement for the amount of time, on average, required to...

Gsquared - no worries, no apology necessary. Guys like that break communities apart by getting people all riled up on both sides. (sigh)

Of course you don't. You just want to...

Did you pay a lot for those?