Just the other day one of the readers sent me following email after reading my earlier blog post: STRING_SPLIT Function Performance Comparison. He really liked the new feature of SQL Server 2016 and decided to start using this new feature. However, as soon as he started to use this feature, he received following error. He was very much confused why he was not able to use the STRING_SPLIT function even though he had SQL Server 2016.
21 Essential Scripts: Jump-Start Performance Tuning for Accidental DBAs – PASS Pre-Con 2018
Today, I am going to talk about my the most anticipated pre-conference 21 Essential Scripts: Jump-Start Performance Tuning for Accidental DBAs scheduled at PASS Summit 2018. This session is going to be amazing fun and very unique. It is full day demo-oriented learning session.
SQL SERVER – How to Get SQL Server Agent Properties?
During Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check we always go over various SQL Server properties. Lots of people do not know that there are quite a few SQL Server settings which can help us improve our SQL Server performance many folds. While I was discussing SQL Server properties, someone asked me if there are similar settings for SQL Server Agent available which users can tune.
SQL SERVER – Installation Error – Unable to Open Windows Installer File – 2147286960
SQL installation and parching are the processes which every DBA has to do. Some smart DBAs do this via script and some go with a manual approach. When it fails, it is fun to debug it because you have to take help from internet to find possible causes and solution. In this blog, we would learn about how to fix error Unable to open Windows Installer file -2147286960.
How to List All the SQL Server Jobs When Agent is Disabled? – Interview Question of the Week #171
Question: How to List All the SQL Server Jobs When Agent is Disabled?
SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException. The Registry Key is Missing
One of my blog readers contacted me and informed that he is getting the same error as mentioned in below blog SQL SERVER – Service Pack Failure: MissingRegistryKeyException. Note that it had the same error message, but that did not help him here. In this blog, we would learn how to fix MissingRegistryKeyException while installing SQL Server service pack. Let us fix the error registry key is missing.
SQL Server Performance Tuning – Upcoming Public Training
I frequently do various online and offline public training. Once the training gets over, I get a flurry of emails from various individuals that they have missed the last training and would like to sign up for the next training. Here is the list of my upcoming public training. You may sign up anyone you like or all of them!
PowerShell – Get Maximum Memory of Server with dbatools
Yesterday I blogged about the very famous Powershell free community tool dbatools. After writing this blog post, I received some interesting emails. I think lots of people confused this with native PowerShell. Well, actually dbatools is build using PowerShell scripts and runs under the hood script of PowerShell. The biggest advantage of the PowerShell is that it helps us to do multiple operations like finding the maximum memory of the server.
PowerShell – How to Install dbatools?
One of the most popular questions any PowerShell expert would receive is how to install the most popular dbatools based on Powershell scripts?
SQL SERVER – Script – Transaction Log Backups Based on Growth / Size
While doing a comprehensive health check of the SQL Server, one of the things I check is the backup plan for the production databases. Many times, I have run into a situation where a customer says ” Transaction log file of the database has grown more than expected. I want to know the reason why and how to reclaim space and how to avoid such situations”. Let’s break it down into two parts and then