SQL SERVER – SSMS: Transaction Log Shipping Status Report

History has its own way to define now civilizations thrived. Most of the cities flourished in the river side and transporting lumber was one of the key activity. Most of the cities like Seattle and many others have this boom and bust life. The idea here was to cut the timber upstream and use the natural flow of rivers to transport to factories downstream using the river. These are classic and wonderful examples of how we typically work with Log-Shipping in SQL Server too. This blog is about Transaction Log Shipping Status report.

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SQL SERVER – Activity Reports – Dormant Sessions

With schools starting for my daughter, I rarely get involved in her daily routine activity. But there is one thing that I don’t try to miss – the parents-teachers meet. Sometimes it is not about the report card on how my daughter faired against the rest in the class but it is more than that. I am curious to understand how she behaves in the class, how she makes friends in class, how her extra-curricular activities are, is she disciplined overall etc. Those are key attributes and traits I am looking at getting as feedback from the teachers in that hour of interactions. Let us learn about Dormant Sessions in this blog post.

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SQL SERVER – SSMS: Memory Consumption Report

The next in line in this series of reports is the “ Memory Consumption ” Report from SQL Server Management Studio. This is a goldmine of a report in my humble opinion and lesser respected. When I used to be consulted or land into performance tuning exercises for customers in the past, there is one question that gets repeated and echoed every now and then – “My SQL Server is eating away my RAM and it is not releasing it back even in non-peak hours”.

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