I recently received email from one of my very close friend from California. His question was very interesting. He wanted to know how many virtual processors are there available for SQL Server. He already had script for SQL Server 2008 but was mainly looking for SQL Server 2000. He made me go to my past. I found following script from my old emails (I have no reference listed along with it, so not sure the original source).
SQL SERVER – DVM sys.dm_os_sys_info Column Name Changed in SQL Server 2012
Have you ever faced a situation where something does not work? When you try to fix it ‑ you enjoy fixing it and started to appreciate the breaking changes. Well, this was exactly I felt yesterday. Before I begin my story, I want to candidly state that I do not encourage anybody to use * in the SELECT statement. Let us read more about sys.dm_os_sys_info in this blog post.
SQL SERVER – Three DMVs – sys.dm_server_memory_dumps – sys.dm_server_services – sys.dm_server_registry
In this blog post we will see three new DMVs which are introduced in Denali. The DMVs are very simple and there is not much to describe them. So here is the simple game. I will be asking a question back to you after seeing the result of the each of the DMV and you help me to complete this blog post.
SQL SERVER – Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations()
In my recent Office Hours, I received a question on how to determine the case sensitivity of the database. Let us learn about how we can Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations().
SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System
One more quick introduction to DMV for Denali. Following DMV provides information about Windows Operating System. Here is the quick example of the same. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume
SQL Server Denali has many new interesting feature – one of the interesting feature is New DMVs. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have created for the same. SELECT DB_NAME(f.database_id) DatabaseName,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Denali – DMV Enhancement – sys.dm_exec_query_stats – New Columns
SQL Server version next Denali has lots of enhancements. Some of the enhancements are just game changing and overcomes needs of more coding to do the same thing. Similar function DMV is sys.dm_exec_query_stats. There are four new columns added to this DMV. I have often used this DMV to check…
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