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Using the Right Tool
My week has been spent deep diving with the OpNet AppInternals Xpert and AppResponse console to learn some more valuable troubleshooting skills for our servers and applications that we administer...
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Sunday Funday
Today’s installment of Sunday Funday brings you some fun with T-SQL by Nick Jacobsen, the classic 99 Bottles of Beer T-SQL style. Enjoy! Filed under: Funhouse, Scripting Tagged: SQL Fun, SQL Server...
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Keeping Track of Details
After creating a few new SQL accounts this morning, I thought I would share how I keep track of minor details like this. We use SharePoint for our department to track documents, procedures, processes,...
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SQL Evaluation Project Upcoming
I have been tasked with an exciting goal for this new fiscal year. Determine whether our existing SQL Server tools, Redgate DBA/Backup Bundle and Toad for SQL Server, are the best tools for our needs....
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I Want My MTV, I Mean SQL Server 2012!
I would love to upgrade my servers to SQL Server 2012. We’ve met with Microsoft and we discussed the licensing ramifications and I got really excited about upgrading after getting the OK internally....
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SQL Tool Evaluation, List of Tools
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Below are the items submitted thus far for me to evaluate, let me know within the next few days if you have any others to add to the list. Keep in mind that I am an...
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Nifty Code to Update Collation
Today, we interrupt our countdown series in progress to bring you some actual T-SQL coding. I had to bring out this snippet and dust it off for my purposes, to change some column-level collation in a...
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SQL Server 2012, Maybe?
On Wednesday of this week we spoke with Microsoft again about licensing for SQL Server 2012. Apparently there was some confusion when we had the discussion back in March with management’s...
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Updating SQL Server 2012 to SP1
With service pack 1 being released during SQL PASS Summit 2012, I did not get the chance to update my personal laptop. This is great timing as I have just purchased developer on my laptop. You can...
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Exploring SQL Server 2012: Code Snippets
One of the new features available in SQL Server 2012 is the Code Snippet Manager. Previously this was available through third-party tools and add-ins. The Code Snippets Manager is available through...
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What’s New in SQL Server 2012
Since it is a holiday weekend, I thought I would give you something to chew on today. Having just installed SQL Server 2012 Developer on my personal laptop, I am wanting to test drive some new...
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Corruption and Verifying Backups
This morning I had a conversation with a Subject Matter Expert and Application Administrator who asked me quite simply for a verified backup before he does an install on Saturday. My response was...
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Shrink That Database…Seriously?
Yesterday afternoon my storage administrator came to me and asked me to look at his Enterprise Vault database and make sure that they were receiving the proper maintenance because he was running a...
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Deadlock Graphs
Last night I learned about graphical deadlock graphs from Fargham Butt of Microsoft. I had simply used the traceflag and then read the error logs to find the information. Thus today I thought I...
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Windows 8
Setting up a windows 8 Lenovo laptop for my wife today. She forgot the password and now we are recovering the machine. There was never an option to setup the USB recovery setup when we created the...
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Microsoft License Advisor
Looking to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 but you are not sure how much it costs or how the licensing works? Try the Microsoft License Advisor. Even if you are not upgrading, this is a fun little utility...
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Miscellaneous Backup Notes
This week I have been teaching my understudy about backups and restores. Here are some important things we went over this week: Checking “Verify backup when finished” does not ensure that the backup...
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Backup Tool Testing Begins
Today we are beginning our testing phase for comparing the default SQL Server backup solution to the Red Gate HyperBac and SQL Backup Pro 7. We have already purchased Red Gate, but simply have not had...
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Update on Backup Tool Testing
After a day of testing, we were able to integrate our Ola Hallengren solution with the Red Gate SQL Backup Pro v7.2 turning a SQL compressed backup on one database from 1.2 GB to 700 MB using...
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Finalizing SQL Backup Assessment
After testing HyperBac yesterday in our SQL Backup tools series throughout this week, we realized that SQL Backup Pro is the way to go. The HyperBac compressed backups were not smaller than either SQL...
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