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SQL Server Instance Security: Scripting Permissions Part 2
After writing a powershell way of scripting permissions I thought I better just show the way I used to do it using T-SQL. Although this script is not complete and…
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Capturing Deadlocks
So, deadlocks. "A deadlock occurs when two or more tasks permanently block each other by each task having a lock on a resource which the other tasks are trying to…
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SQL Server Profiler Trace
A Trace can easily be used to monitor what is happening within SQL Server, just start SQL Server Profiler via the Tools Menu in SSMS or via a shortcut. Once…
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Delta and Cumulative IO Stats
Checking IO statistics has always been one of the most important metrics for any DBA. It is no surprise that most people I know will have some version of the…
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SQL Server Memory: Max Server Memory or Task Manager is wrong
Issue 1: max server memory <> max server memory Okay so you have run sp_configure and checked SQL and it has stolen more memory than you told it to. Aghh!…
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Studying for the SQL MCM 2008 (Microsoft Certified Master)
This post will list the resources that I have found and that will hopefully give enough material in order to tackle the SQL MCM 2008. It will also provide an…
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Time Calculations (Rounding time to 00:00 or x minute)
This is a collection of sql code to enable the removal of time from a datetime, or the rounding to the nearest x minute (up or down) The rounding includes…
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Simple Table and Index Breakdown
This script provides a breakdown with row count and partition information of tables and indexes. It is in essence merely a cut down version of the final Detailed Table and Index…
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Detailed Table and Index Breakdown
When I need to get a detailed overview of my database objects there are a number of scripts that I have written or adapted with varying degrees of depth. Primarily I…
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Investigating CHECKPOINT
Investigating CHECKPOINT (Transact-SQL) Writes all dirty pages for the current database to disk. Dirty pages are data pages that have been entered into the buffer cache and modified, but not…