What are the Replication Agents waiting on? Accumulating wait stats by agent session
Consider the following scenario: · You have Transactional Replication deployed · Data is flowing, but just not as fast as you would like · This
Consider the following scenario: · You have Transactional Replication deployed · Data is flowing, but just not as fast as you would like · This
Let’s say you’ve “disabled” parallelism on your SQL Server instance via the ‘max degree of parallelism’ setting as follows: EXEC sp_configure‘max degree of parallelism’, 1
When I first heard about SQL Server 2012’s SEQUENCE object – I thought it was an interesting feature to be added and one that I
I received a question today about the impact of data compression on the transaction log. While most of the time we talk about data compression
I was thinking back to a conversation I had some time ago regarding cases when sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats does not get updated after an index is used
While it’s good to keep an eye on your SQL Server instances – it’s a balancing act. On one side you want to be sure
When I'm troubleshooting concurrency issues – be it deadlocking or long duration blocks, I’m immediately curious about the isolation level being used. While I may be told
So picture the following scenario on a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance (an amalgam of various DBA situations you've no doubt seen before)… You get
This blog post applies to SQL Server 2012 CTP3 (11.0.1440). SQL Server 2012 introduces the “indirect checkpoints” feature. At a high level, it allows you to
Today there isn’t a fine-tuned way to clear the accumulated statistics from the “missing index” set of DMVs. Certainly restarting SQL Server will do this,
This post covers examples from Denali CTP3, version 11.0.1440. In my last post, “Under The Covers With Sp_server_diagnostics Data (Part I)” I started an exploration
This post covers examples from Denali CTP3, version 11.0.1440. In this post I’ll be discussing the SQL Server health related output from Denali’s sys.sp_server_diagnostics system
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