A little more than a year ago while working at Idera, I was consulted on reports from a few clients using the Idera monitoring tool SQL diagnostic manager (SQLdm). SQLdm was reporting very high numbers for internal object allocations (internal_objects_alloc_page_count) and very low numbers for internal object deallocations (internal_objects_dealloc_page_count) to the point that SQLdm showed … Read More →
It’s time for that monthly geek party again we like to call T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday is one of the greatest assemblage of geeks since the Tri-Lambda and Alpha-Mu mixer … this week. T-SQL Tuesday #41, hosted this month by Bob Pusateri (Blog|@SQLBob). You are invited to visit his blog to join the blog party. … Read More →
A network pipeline isn’t nearly as pleasant to look at as the oil pipeline (or anything) in Alaska, but it’s something that DBAs should be aware of. There is a server configuration in SQL Server that controls the size of packet in which SQL Server sends out data. This setting is called network packet size … Read More →
It has been a long journey to the final day my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, but we have finally reached the final post, day 31. My final topic for the series is born out of a conversation I had today with my good friend and fellow DBA, Ed Watson (blog|@SQLGator). today, I want … Read More →
It’s been a tough and long road to 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. It’s been very difficult coming up with quality topic ideas for the series as we near the end. For day 30 of the series, I am combining a post on performing piecemeal restores with a post on filegroups for T-SQL Tuesday #40 … Read More →
I am currently going through the process of looking for a new opportunity for my career. I’m going through the rigamarole of doing interviews and talking numbers with recruiters, etc. I’m even considering a position at Microsoft whome I left last year after spending 5 years there. All of these activities have me thinking back … Read More →
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from database snapshots. Someone asked me recently if I had any recommendations for speeding up their unit testing on replicated databases. He has to run unit tests over and over on replicated databases to ensure that … Read More →
This past weekend was SQL Saturday #198 in Vancouver, B.C. It started off with a leisurely drive up to Vancouver on Friday and getting settled in to my hotel room. I was in the first slot of the day, and had a decent turnout despite the early hours. Whenever I have the first or last … Read More →
Welcome to day 28 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. Today I want to talk about recovering SQL Server if your tempdb drive suddenly dies. SQL Server won’t start if it can’t start up tempdb, so it poses a challenge if you can’t get the drive up and running again. If you missed … Read More →
Today is day 27 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery, and I want to talk about restoring a partial database to a server. If you have a very large database with many filegroups, and you need to restore just part of the database, then you can perform a partial restore (Enterprise Edition required) … Read More →
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