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Agent Jobs Running Longer Than Usual: Finding Them in Job History

March 16, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Monitoring, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

Find Agent jobs running longer than usual by decoding history durations, comparing current activity, and alerting against a baseline.

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SQL in Sixty Seconds #195.

Find Missing Identity – SQL in Sixty Seconds #195

March 3, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL Identity, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Server

Today, we will discuss a very interesting topic about how to find missing identities from our database table. I have previously blogged.

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Gaps in an Identity Column: Find Missing Identity Values

February 28, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Identity, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Gaps in an identity column come from deletes, rollbacks, failed inserts and the identity cache. This post finds them as ranges with LEAD, catches the tail with IDENT_CURRENT and lists single values with GENERATE_SERIES.

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Using Stored Procedure in SELECT – SQL in Sixty Seconds #193

February 15, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
Ad Hoc Query, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure

Today we are going to learn about how Using Stored Procedure in SELECT. However, the easiest method to run the stored procedure.

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Will the Next Autogrowth Fit? Checking Growth Against Free Disk

February 9, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Disk, SQL Server

The drive has free space, yet the file will not grow. Here is how to calculate the next autogrowth and test it against disk and MAXSIZE.

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SQL SERVER – Capturing Stored Procedure Results with a Matching INSERT EXEC Table

February 8, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Ad Hoc Query, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure

A stored procedure is not normally a table expression in a SELECT Statement. The question concerned rows from uspGetManagerEmployees.

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TempDB Operating System Error 3: Fix a Wrong TempDB Path

January 27, 2022
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL TempDB

TempDB operating system error 3 means a tempdb file path cannot be found, for example after a typo in a move. This post reproduces the error safely, shows how error 3 differs from error 2 and lists the repair steps when the service will not start.

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