While working on a chapter I am writing, I was going through the ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION topic in the Books Online and noticed some really useful changes in the syntax that I hadn’t seen before. Starting in SQL Server 2008 R2, ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION was introduced to allow for process affinity configuration and to replace […]
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New features of ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION in SQL Server 2012
Posted on: June 27, 2012 9:15 am
Resolving Error 33204 SQL Server Audit could not write to the security log
Posted on: June 22, 2012 9:50 pm
This topic came up on a forum post recently, and after responding a couple of times to the thread I had to jump into one of my VMs to figure out what exactly the problem was. If you use Server Audits in SQL Server, one of the features that you might be interested in is […]
Fixing VirtualBox “Could not find an open hard disk with UUID” Errors with Differencing Disks
Posted on: June 13, 2012 9:48 am
A few weeks back, I needed to make space on my laptop SSDs for some new VMs for future training classes we’ll be doing and as a part of doing this I decided to copy a number of my VirtualBox VMs to an external hard disk. What I had expected was that this would work […]
Identifying External Memory Pressure with dm_os_ring_buffers and RING_BUFFER_RESOURCE_MONITOR
Posted on: June 4, 2012 11:49 pm
In my last blog post, I provided a script that queried the XML for the resource monitor ring buffer entries in sys.dm_os_ring_buffers to identify when the system was under memory pressure as a result of not having the ‘max server memory’ sp_configure option set correctly for the server. Since that post has gone live, I’ve […]
