Whitepaper: Demystify Tempdb Performance & Management There are many misconceptions and myths about tempdb and purported best practices are inconsistent at best. It’s hard to know which advice to follow when one resource says to always do it one way and another tells you to always do it the opposite way. Many times, both resources…
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Why We Follow Best Practices
Why We Follow Best Practices There are many reasons why we follow best practices. My own reasons have changed over the course of my career. Early in my career as a database developer and then later as a new DBA, I followed best practices because people who claimed to know more about SQL Server said…
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Breaking Down TempDB Contention (part 2) I wrote a somewhat popular script and blog post a while back called Breaking Down TempDB Contention. This post explains how to identify tempdb contention. This past Friday, Jonathan Kehayias (blog|@SQLPoolboy) contacted me about the script. Jonathan said that he thought the math was off just a little bit…
(5 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5) Loading ...SQL PASS Summit 2011: Session Files
SQL PASS Summit 2011: Session Files This past week was the SQL PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, WA. I presented three sessions (regular session, lightning talk, panel discussion) plus ran a focus group on advanced certification and hosted a Birds of a Feather lunch table on disaster recovery. It was a busy, busy week. Below…
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The Barking Dog Analogy A discussion started today on Twitter about CXPacket waits. There had been a heated debate on the subject on Twitter the previous night (wow, does that sound geeky), so many of us got looped into today’s discussion. Someone had experienced a problem with a delete query on a large table causing…
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...T-SQL Tuesday #21 – Bringing Ugly Back
T-SQL Tuesday #21 – Bringing Ugly Back This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #21, hosted this month by Adam Machanic (Blog|@AdamMachanic). You are invited to visit his blog to join the blog party. You are welcome to write your own participating blog post for the party or just to read more blogs participating…
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Secrets of SQL Server Webcast: TempDB: Performance and Manageability Register today for my Secrets of SQL Server webcast on July 13th. TempDB: Performance and Manageability Misconceptions and inconsistent advice on tempDB abounds. Even highly skilled DBAs cannot always agree on how to best configure tempDB. Part of the problem is that there is no single…
(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5) Loading ...Counting Unreplicated Commands and Transactions
Counting Unreplicated Commands and Transactions Someone asked me a question via Twitter today that I couldn’t possible answer 40 characters at a time. The question was about how to get the count of unreplicated transactions and commands from teh distribution server without using system views. Well, I do use one system view, but only because…
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...SQLU HA/DR Week – Database Mirroring Performance Counters
SQLU HA/DR Week – Database Mirroring Performance Counters Database mirroring debuted in SQL Server 2005 and had eleven performance counters for monitoring mirroring. There were ten new performance counters released with SQL Server 2008. We now have twenty-one performance counters to use for monitoring database mirroring. A list with a brief description of each can…
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SQLU VLDB Week – Index Maintenance Welcome back for another exciting session on working with VLDBs, or Very Large DataBases. Today is day 2 of VLDBweek, and we are going to dive into the biggest challenge, as voted on by the people, with working with VLDBs: Index Maintenance <cue spooky music>. The reason index maintenace…
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My SQL Server Magazine Articles
- Database Mirroring for Disaster Recovery September 16, 2011
- Comparative Review: Database Schema Comparison Tools August 24, 2011
- 3 Log Shipping Techniques June 22, 2011
- Hardening SQL Server June 20, 2011
- Review: ScriptLogic Security Explorer for SQL Server February 8, 2011
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