Earlier this week, we were fortunate to receive an amazing script to overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replicate server from SQL Server Expert Dominic Wirth. You can read the amazing script here: Scripts to Overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replica Server. As a follow up to the previous conversation today I received another extremely helpful script from Dominic Wirth which I will be using with my customers every single day. In this blog post, we will see the script which will Monitor Estimated Completion Times for Backup, Restore and DBCC Commands.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Max Degree of Parallelism Settings and Slow Performance
My primary source of income for me is the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check for any application using SQL Server. Recently, I was hired by a large organization which was struggling with the poor performance of their Microsoft Dynamics CRM. They had recently upgraded their SQL Server to the latest version of SQL Server and were facing slow queries, slow loading of the pages as well as white screens in the applications.
SQL SERVER – Microsoft Azure – Unable to Find Higher Tier Series Virtual Machine to Upgrade
With current market trends of cloud shifting, many of my clients have moved their SQL Servers from on-premise virtual machines to Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. In this blog, I would explain a situation where my client was not able to find relevant size when he wanted to upsize the VM to a higher tier.
SQL SERVER – Simple Method to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number
In my earlier post on “SQL SERVER – Different Methods to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number”, I had shown you how to extract only the decimal part from a number. The post had three different methods to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number. Recently I have found a very simple method to extract the decimal part and want to share with my blog readers.
SQL SERVER – Scripts to Overview HADR / AlwaysOn Local Replica Server
Today, I have received a very interesting script from SQL Server Expert Dominic Wirth. He has written a very helpful script which displays a utilization overview of the local availability group replica server. The overview will contain the number of databases as well as the total size of databases (DATA, LOG, FILESTREAM) and is group by following two categories
SQL SERVER – Rebuild Index Job Failed – Error: 9002 – The Transaction Log for Database ‘PinalDB’ is Full Due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’
Sometimes we have an error in SQL Server job history which are not very accurate to find the cause of an issue. In this blog we would explore a situation where rebuild index job was failing with error 9002 – The transaction log for database ‘PinalDB’ is full due to ‘LOG_BACKUP’.
Which is Optimal – TOP 0 OR WHERE 1 = 2? – Interview Question of the Week #190
Question:Â Which is Optimal – TOP 0 OR WHERE 1 = 2?
Answer: They both are the same!
SQL SERVER – SSMS – Enable Line Numbers in SQL Server Management Studio
During the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I never take access to the server. We always connect via GoToMeeting or WebEx. Due to the security issue, I always prefer that I never log in to the server directly but I always like to teach and guide DBAs who are working with me on another side, how to do SQL Server Performance Tuning. However, while I do this, I face often challenge when I am looking at the screen and tell DBA on the other side to change any specific part of the query. This is when I believe the trick of enabling line numbers in SSMS comes in handy.
Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Reviews and Feedback
I have so far received an amazing response to my online class Practical Real World Performance Tuning. As I am writing this blog post so far we have 37 reviews for this class. In today’s blog post we will go over a few of the reviews and feedback.
SQL SERVER – Automated SQL Server Consolidation and Right Sizing – Save 50% Data Platform Costs
If you have ever needed to implement a large-scale data platform migration or consolidation project, you are definitely familiar with many of the pain points faced during the process. Firstly, manual data collection is very tricky to arrange and demands lots of work. Secondly, the planning of the capacity is a complex and detailed process – you need to take all the performance counters, their threshold levels and SLA’s, trends, different server benchmarks and such into account. When it comes to the consolidation effort, it is impossible to try to rearrange the SQL Server instances into a most optimal target server setup with manual work. All this takes a lot of time and is prone to human error.