Backup monitoring and reporting
Chad Miller over on SQLServerCentral has put together a really great collection of scripts that allow you to easily monitor and report on what backups
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Chad Miller over on SQLServerCentral has put together a really great collection of scripts that allow you to easily monitor and report on what backups
In last week's survey I asked you two things, as a precursor to a whitepaper I'm writing for Microsoft The first question was what is
This week's survey is inspired by this morning's Kimberly+Paul hot-tub conversation around data-dependent routing vs. network load balancing, which then turned to SLAs. Yes, we
About a year ago, I blogged a cool script that would work out how much of a database has changed since the last full backup
This week's survey is inspired from many stories I saw on the forums and Twitter this week – mostly bad, one good (someone I'm following
Quickie this morning to start the day off. I saw a question on a forum: if I *have* to use a GUID and *must* have
This is a true story, and unfolded over the last few days. It’s deliberately written this way, I’m not trying to be patronizing – just illustrating
Last week's survey was two-fold – what's the largest SQL Server database you manage, and how many SQL Server databases are you responsible for managing.
This has come up a few times now, most recently in an email question this morning – subsequent runs of DBCC CHECKDB show varying numbers of
Recently there’s been a spate of people noticing strange behavior from active transactions when DBCC CHECKDB (or any of the other DBCC consistency checking commands
Jason Massie posted an interesting statistic yesterday – Facebook has 1.5 petabytes of image storage, and it grows by 25TB daily – I wonder how
Last week’s survey was on what kind of backups you take, along with the recovery model used (see here for the survey). Here are the
The June edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the latest installment of my regular SQL Q&A column. This month's
In this week's survey I'm interested in what kind of backups you take, and also what recovery model you mostly use. If you have multiple
A couple of weeks ago I kicked off the latest survey, on what the physical layout of your databases are and why you have them
[Edit 2016: This trace flag is required in all version of SQL Server up to and including SQL Server 2014. Every instance of SQL Server
A short post to start the day (in India) and then at lunchtime I'll do how it works: FILESTREAM garbage collection. This is a question
Every so often (well, ok, very frequently) my internal list of ‘I must blog about that’ gets too big and I have an almost
Not much to do here in Tokyo while waiting for the Bangkok flight except read and blog, and I've already done enough reading for one
This week's survey is a little more complicated. I'm interested in the physical layout of your databases. I've got four surveys, for a variety of database
Last week's survey was on how *you* manage the size of your transaction log (see here for the survey). Here are the results as of 4/10/2009
In this week's survey, I'm interested in how *you* manage the size of your transaction log. I'll report on the results around 4/10/2009. Thanks! (No
Last week’s survey was on how you should store large-value character data in SQL 2005+ (see here for the survey). Here are the result as
Jack Li, one of the Senior Escalation Engineers in Product Support, just posted details of an interesting case over on the CSS blog – his article
While I was teaching the MCM-Database class last week, we were discussing fragmentation and the effect of a high-order GUID key on an index. Without
In this week's survey, I'd like to know *how* you run consistency checks, not how often. I'll report on the results next week (around 3/27/09)
Last week’s survey was on what kind of regular index maintenance you perform (see here for the survey) as a way of kicking off a
I'm about to start a new series of post about index fragmentation and removing it. For this week's survey, I'd like to know what index
Last week I kicked off the first weekly survey – on whether you validate your backups or not (see here for the survey). The results
Ola Hallengren, who we meet every so often at SQL Connections, has a great script that helps automate consistency checking, backups, and index maintenance. He's
The April edition of TechNet Magazine is available on the web now and has the latest installment of my regular SQL Q&A column. This month's
As you may know, DBCC CHECKDB (and some of the other DBCC CHECK*) commands use an internal database snapshot to get a transactionally consistent view
This is an interesting case that cropped up yesterday – the transaction log is damaged so a log backup doesn’t work (with the error below):
I'm toying with the idea of having a weekly survey that'll highlight an interesting facet of database management. I've signed up with SurveyPopups.com, which is
We’re doing some research into database settings that people use and the best way to get a good variety of systems is to ask you
In my previous post today I talked about error 825 and how you should have an Agent alert set up to catch it when it
There are two pretty well-known I/O errors – 823, and 824 – but there’s also one called 825 which most DBAs do*not* know about, and
In SQL Server 2000 and before, the symptoms of database corruption would occasionally manifest themselves as asserts, such as: SQL Server Assertion: File: <recbase.cpp>, line=1378
One of the things I mentioned in my recent TechNet Magazine article on Understanding Logging and Recovery was the need to manage the transaction log
Wow – today is all about new content. As if I haven't already blogged about enough stuff to keep you reading through next week, the
Over the last few weeks Sunil Agarwal (from the SQL Storage Engine team) has posted a great series of blog articles about tempdb and the version
Well, we're back from vacation finally (only for 10 days and then off to India and Thailand for 3 weeks… phew) and I've got a
This blog post describes the demo "2 – NC Indexes" from my Corruption Survival Techniques conference session from various conferences in 2008. The links to
For those of you who couldn't make it to a conference this year where I presented my Corruption Survival Techniques session, the folks at TechEd
Here’s a question I got from someone who attended our database maintenance workshop at PASS last week (paraphrased): I attended your pre-conference session on database
This blog post explains the demo scripts and databases I've posted to cover all the Corruption Survival Techniques and DBCC CHECKDB sessions I've presented at
It’s been almost two weeks since my last post as we’ve been offline in Scotland (another photo post to follow – I owe you two
I got bored on the first leg of the journey from Seattle to London so thought I’d bang out a quick blog post. After my
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