Question:Â How to Find Size of the Index for Tables?
Answer: Earlier this week, during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked this question by my client. Let us see the script which will give us details related to Schema, Tables, Index and its size.
There are several reasons for the error mentioned in the blog title. In this blog, we would learn about one of the causes of error Unable to start service SQLSERVERAGENT on a server.
Every day I spend a good amount of time with my regular and new clients, helping them with SQL Server Performance Tuning issues. Today, in this blog, I will discuss a situation faced where I was engaged in Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. I saw below message on client’s SSMS while he was trying to create a table – You are not logged on as the database owner or system administrator.
Today is Anniversary of SQLAuthority and it completes 12 years and this is a 4552nd blog post. That means on average every year I have published around 379.3 blog posts a year.
12 years ago on November 1st, 2018, when I started this blog, I had no idea where I will end up but I must confess, it is a pretty decent ride so far. There are earlier many blog posts, I have shared my story, so I am not going to re-write it why did I start the blog. However, let me take a moment and talk about the future of the blog.
Just another day, I received an email from a user who has over 350 thousand tables in a single database. He was my earlier customer of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. He was facing indeed a very strange issue where his metadata table was locking up and we fixed that by disabling IntelliSense in SQL Server Management Studio.Â
Most of my earnings come from my role as SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization consultant. Every single day I work with few customers so that I can maintain the quality of my work with each of them. As you can imagine, I face new challenges and learn new ways to tune SQL Server. In this blog post, we will discuss an error XML document could not be created because server memory is low. Use sp_xml_removedocument to release XML documents.
Every consulting engagement is different and I enjoy interacting with different people while I am working with different experts. Earlier this week, here is what I heard during one of the  Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check engagement about Parallelism for Heap Scan.
Question:Â What is Read Ahead Read in SQL Server?
Answer: This is SQL Server’s feature which brings data pages into the buffer cache.
During the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I was asked if there is any way to know compression ration of backup if we enable compressed backup settings in SQL Server.
I will be presenting a day-long pre-conference at SQLPASS on the topic – 21 Essential Scripts: Jump-Start Performance Tuning for Accidental DBAs and regular session as well. Lots of people are asking me what I will be covering in the session, so I have decided to give sneak preview about it on the blog of PASS.