To drop tables by prefix, list the matching tables first and drop them with a script that quotes every schema and table name. This post shows why the underscore in a prefix is a trap, a one-statement version and a cursor version. It works in SQL Server and in Azure SQL Database.
Performance Condition Alerts: Warnings Before a Log File Fills
Build performance condition alerts for log usage, tempdb free space, and blocking, with sensible delays and an operator response.
TempDB Performance: Five Settings to Check in SQL Server
TempDB performance depends on five settings that you can read in a few minutes: how big it is, how many data files it has, whether they match, how it grows and where it lives. Three read-only queries check each one. The post also explains what to do with the answers.
CHECKPOINT Duration: Can You Speed Up a Manual CHECKPOINT?
The CHECKPOINT duration argument sets a target time in seconds. This post times a manual checkpoint on a database with 130 MB of dirty pages, and shows that a long duration slows it badly while a short one does not make it faster. It also shows that a backup flushes dirty pages by itself.
SQL SERVER – Impact of CHECKPOINT and DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS on Memory
Today we will discuss the Impact of CHECKPOINT and DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS on Memory. We will see how each of them clears dirty and clean pages from the buffer memory pool.
How Dirty or Clean is SQL SERVER’s Memory? – Interview Question of the Week #229
Question: How Dirty or Clean SQL SERVER Database is (by Memory)?
This blog post is the follow up of the earlier blog post on the same subject.
Personal Technology – Bluetooth Volume Problem with Windows Volume Control
Bluetooth volume stays the same from 1 to 100 in Windows? Diagnose Absolute Volume, use a reversible fix, and restore the original setting.