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Still on the topic of automating maintenance tasks.. consider the following monthly security patch maintenance steps on 100+ SQL Servers with 500+ databases:
1. install monthly security patches on all mirror...
April 6, 2012 at 7:40 am
natural reaction to high stress/high impact working environments.... when trading systems are down there will be profanity... lots of it.
November 7, 2011 at 12:28 am
.. main reason why IT in the finance industry is dominated by males...
November 6, 2011 at 11:01 pm
back in the days of mainframe programming, COBOL, Natural, Fortran etc, there were a lot more woman programmers. IMO this was due to the structured training programs and courses that...
January 6, 2010 at 2:07 am
Ok, so at them moment I have an unsent log of 4090945 KB and current restore rate of 2574 KB/sec which gives me an estimated 25 minute lag.
Wait stats on...
October 30, 2009 at 4:23 am
No, the DR server is totally passive and we dont run any database or disk snapshots.
Murphys Law now that I want to pull some wait stats the server is 100%...
October 29, 2009 at 12:03 pm
In fact I have a server where this is happening right now. Same error as you:
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A time out occurred while waiting for memory resources to execute the query
Resource Monitor (0xaa0)...
October 28, 2009 at 8:40 am
it can be a combination of issues. Perhaps check what your tempdb utilisation is too.
We get your error ocasionally on some of our servers where we do very intensive Service...
October 28, 2009 at 8:19 am
perhaps if you implement a 24x7 server-side trace you will be able to capture the offending code or batch:
October 28, 2009 at 7:09 am
Microsoft has their own internal knowledge base consisting of KBs and customer incidents and requests for PSS, MCS staff, system engineers etc to query and reference. Most of this information...
October 28, 2009 at 5:57 am
In my post I'm referring to physical servers. We only ever install 1 instance of SQL Server per server. Oracle is a little different.
Another thing I must mention is...
October 27, 2009 at 6:28 am
I have a team of 4 DBAs - 2 SQL and 2 Oracle. We manage administer:
270 SQL Servers -dev, test, UAT and production
70 Oracle on Linux servers - dev,...
October 27, 2009 at 5:31 am
Nice one - thanks. My suspicions were correct - Service Broker:
(No column name)MBs_Used
sysdesend19140
sysdercv14279
sysconvgroup7216
queue_messages_8838738418
Looks like something to do with SENDs and RECEIVEs.
October 23, 2009 at 7:06 am
I worked for Microsoft 2001 - 2004 at their MSN offices in Soho, London. We had a great mix of young talented system engineers, DBAs and PMs and it was...
October 13, 2009 at 3:18 am
awww! I thought this article was on soft skills... badly needed in the DBA community. 😀
October 1, 2009 at 9:43 am
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