I have received an interesting email from a client of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. His question was related to files with IO Issues.
Microsoft SQL Server and Ransomware Viruses
What if your files got affected by this plague (Ransomware)? It is unlikely that you can decrypt the files, even after paying a ransom.
SQL SERVER – Removing Extra TempDB Files
The other day I ended up a very interesting situation while working with Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, with TempDB files.
How to Create a Table Automatically in All Newly Created Databases? – Interview Question of the Week #238
Question: How to Create a Table Automatically in All Newly Created Databases? This question was recently asked in my recent consulting engagement
SQL SERVER – Building Date and Time with DATETIMEFROMPARTS()
Today we will have very simple learning about Building Date and Time with DATETIMEFROMPARTS(). We will build the DateTime using a function.
SQL SERVER – Lots of Runnable SPID – What Next?
Once we fixed this issue of bottlenecks, we ended up on a very different issue where we had lots of runnable SPID and CPU was still underutilizing.
SQL SERVER – How to Shrink tempDB Database?
In the email yesterday from the client who earlier hired me for performance tuning had a small question about how to shrink tempdb database.
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