In this survey I'd like to see what the distribution of the number of log files per database is for your servers. I'm planning to do similar surveys through the rest of the year around data files and filegroups too. Please run the following code (with example output): SELECT DISTINCT [LogFiles], COUNT (*) [...]
Paul S. Randal
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Survey: transaction log files per database (code to run)
Posted on: August 29, 2012 12:11 pm
Most common latch classes and what they mean
Posted on: August 21, 2012 12:24 pm
Back in May I kicked off a survey about prevalent latches on SQL Server instances across the world (see here). It's taken me quite a while to get around to collating and blogging about the results, but here they are at last! I got information back for almost 600 servers, and if you remember, I [...]
SQLskills at SQL Connections in October
Posted on: August 10, 2012 9:12 am
The SQL Connections Fall show will be in Las Vegas again this year, October 28th through November 2nd. We’ve put together another great show (Kimberly and I are the Conference Co-Chairs), and Kimberly, Jonathan, and I will be there. Here’s the line-up of SQLskills workshops and sessions: Full-day workshops 10/28: SPR201: Leveraging SQL Server 2012 [...]
Back to business as summer heats up
Posted on: August 1, 2012 5:54 am
You may have noticed that my blog's been pretty quiet in June and empty in July. May and June were frenetic travel and work months for me, with two two-week teaching trips to the UK and producing two training courses for Pluralsight. Then at the end of June, Kimberly and I took the kids to [...]
