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”: …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Configuring Database Data And Log Files
One of the things that Database Administrators typically do is configure the Data and Log file growth settings for the databases on their servers. While these configurations vary by server …