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 ... The post Be Proactive: A Good DBA Goes Looking...
View ArticleSQL 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 ... The post SQL Server Crashes When Hitting 80 Percent...
View ArticleUpcoming 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 ... The post Upcoming Geek Sync: Practical...
View ArticleSetting The Database Owner, Compatibility Level, And Recovery Model With...
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, ... The post Setting The Database...
View ArticleWill 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 ... The post Will You Run Out Of INT And...
View ArticleUpcoming 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”: ... The post Upcoming IDERA Geek Sync –...
View ArticleSlides 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. The post Slides From My March 17th 2021 Geek Sync appeared first on SQL Nuggets.
View ArticlePowerShell: 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 ... The post PowerShell: Compare...
View ArticleYikes! 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 ... The post...
View ArticleThe 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. ... The post The Power Of...
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