I write and play around a lot with SQL Server Management Studio and I love working with them. Having said that, I also explore the ways people want to run code to achieve certain objectives. In the DBA’s world when the number of servers we are talking is not a single digit, they are looking for ways to automate and script out. Recently I was at a retail company backend team in India and they said they have close to 1500+ databases which are running at their various outlets and point of sale counters and the DBA team working to manage these were still less than 10. I was pleasantly surprised by this level of details. In this blog post we will learn about Powershell Script.
SQL SERVER – CREATE OR ALTER Supported in Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2016
There are many enhancements which were introduced in Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2016. If you are a developer, then you can easily understand this productivity improvement. Does below code looks familiar to you? Let us learn about CREATE OR ALTER Supported in Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2016.
SQL SERVER – Discovery Report – How to Find Information About Installed Features?
Many times, we need to find information about the various features / version of SQL Server installed on a machine. If you ask a DBA, he can provide you information by looking at services and tell what all are installed. He might run some WMI/T-SQL queries to list the services of SQL Server and their versions. Let us learn about the Discovery Report.
SQL SERVER – Unable to create login AlwaysOn availability group secondary replica
One of my clients reported a usual behavior of the AlwaysOn availability group. He informed me that he is trying to add a login on the secondary replica in the AlwaysOn AG environment but it is failing with below error:
SQL SERVER Management Studio – Taking DB Offline Made Easier
I have an appetite to observe and learn from what happens around me more. These are the best ways we realize how life has been gifted to us. Since I have been traveling lately like mad with families where there has been enough vacation filled with some work sporadically, I got to see how my family enjoys the moment they have in hand. I know it is difficult to get the fee time, but it is a great break from the norm. In my recent Europe trip with my family, I was to travel in a train for close to 3+ hours and I was wondering what I am going to do. Obviously, I had some books to kill my time, but I chose not to do that because my daughter was around. As we boarded the train and started our journey, the initial excitement moved to become “What next?”. As I started to think, I saw my daughter quickly jump into her grandfather’s seat and started to say something and they both got busy watching the sky. Getting curious, I was trying to figure out what both were up to. Interestingly, my daughter made-up a game to create shapes and characters from the moving clouds. And both got busy. Let us learn in this blog post how we can take a database offline.
SQL SERVER – How to Find the In-Memory OLTP Tables Memory Usage on the Server
When I presented at the SQLPASS this year there were several learning that I found it interesting. Every year, this presentation preparation is something I take it seriously. I know many them turn up to learn some new tricks every single year. Hence, I invest considerable amount of time to prepare. This year I showcased several tips and tricks involving SQL Server In-Memory OLTP capability. I personally feel this feature is lesser known and never appreciated. As I was doing the session, one of the DBA asked how to find out the memory utilization of various In-Memory OLTP tables.
SQL SERVER – Playing with Backups and Compression
The era of innovation with SQL Server administration side of things keep happening, it is strange that a lot of us miss these capabilities getting added into the system. I have seen processes define the way how DBA’s work. In a lot of places, the processes, scripts and behaviors are brought forward without a second thought. I wanted to share a recent story that happened at one of my client’s place. Let us talk my experience about playing with backups and compressions.