The Power Of Proper Indexing
This image is an actual screen shot of one of our production SQL Server’s CPU usage, taken from our SQL Sentry monitoring system. Obviously this server was under some strain. …
Yikes! Cannot recover the master database!
Recently, during patching for a 2019 SQL Server, the SQL services refused to start after the patching. It was throwing the following heart attack inducing error: Cannot recover the master …
PowerShell: Compare Users’ AD Groups
When it comes to user logins and permissions in SQL Server, I typically prefer to use Active Directory groups. The problem with that is that you don’t always know what …
Slides From My March 17th 2021 Geek Sync
You can download the slides from today’s How To Be The DBA When You Don’t Have A DBA Geek Sync here.
Upcoming IDERA Geek Sync – March 17th, 2021
Don’t miss my upcoming IDERA Geek Sync, How To Be The DBA When You Don’t Have A DBA, this Wednesday, March 17, 2021. This webinar is for the “Accidental DBA”: …
Will You Run Out Of INT And BIGINT Identities In SQL Server?
In the war over Identities vs GUIDs as clustered indexes, one of the arguments in favor of Unique Identifiers is that you may run out of numbers when using a …
Setting The Database Owner, Compatibility Level, And Recovery Model With PowerShell
One of the great things about dbatool is that it allows you to run commands against multiple things. Sometimes you may need to run the same command on every server, …
Upcoming Geek Sync: Practical PowerShell For The Busy DBA
Be sure to sign up for my upcoming IDERA Geek Sync, Practical PowerShell For The Busy DBA on November 19th, 2020 at 11:00 AM CT. I will be focusing on …
SQL Server Crashes When Hitting 80 Percent RAM Usage
I recently ran into a situation where a new SQL Server would crash hard every time it would get under a load. Here is a synopsis of what we were …
Be Proactive: A Good DBA Goes Looking For Signs of Trouble
Last month I did a session for IDERA Live 2020. This is a free, one day virtual conference put on by IDERA each year, and this year’s focus was “How …
PSSDIAG Error: There Is No Instance Named X
I’m writing this as a reminder to myself for a problem I just had to solve. When running the PSSDIAG tool, if you are running it against SQL 2016 SP2 …
Disabling An Index Drops Compression
This post is more of an FYI, and to remind myself in case I run into it again down the road. Here at work we have a very large, very …
I Am Now A Microsoft Certified Trainer
I am very excited to announce that as of yesterday I am now a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)! This is something that I have been wanting to do for years, …
Does SQL Server Now Distribute Transactions Evenly Across Multiple Log Files?
It is generally known throughout the SQL Server world that having multiple log files on a database is not a good idea. While multiple data files spread across multiple drives …
Setting Drive Allocation Unit Size With PowerShell
There seems to be some ongoing debate around whether or not formatting your data and log drives with 64KB allocation unit size even matters anymore. I would encourage you to …
Setting Up Database Mail And SQL Agent Alerts With PowerShell
As a DBA, you need to know when there’s a problem on your SQL Servers. And while I highly recommend you use a full-fledged monitoring system, there are also some …
Slides From SQL Saturday Tampa 2020
SQL Saturday Tampa 2020 was this past weekend , and I have to say that I really enjoyed it! This was my first time at the Tampa event, and I …
Disable Telemetry On Multiple SQL Servers With PowerShell
Starting with SQL Server 2016, when you install SQL Server it also installs the CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) Services, also known at Telemetry. In previous versions of SQL Server …