This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss syncing logins and database data via log shipping, monitoring page life expectancy, cumulative update issues, when to change MAXDOP, doing SQL Server install on AWS, connecting to SQL Server instance on a virtual box from the desktop where the virtual box is running, and what real DBAs drink.
This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss whether you should keep autoshrink on, AG multisite failovers, next version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2017 Vulnerability Assessment, SELECT INTO vs INSERT INTO, using Node.js with SQL Server, Using PowerShell for DBA tasks, the future of SQL Server for Linux, memory gateway query compile, VB.NET, patching, and more!
This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss Microsoft cumulative updates, AlwaysOn Encrypted, query tuning, poison waits, the DBA career, CXPACKET waits, THREADPOOL issues, reporting services, and more.
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This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss error log issues, issues with moving a 2-node AG to a different VM, adding a rowversion column gotchas, using indexes, Docker & CI/CD, RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE query compile, table locks, Query Store, and best places to eat in NYC.
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This week, Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss troubleshooting port blocking, page life expectancy issues, problems with turning off CPU schedulers, coordinating two jobs across servers, adding additional log files to an almost-full partition, tips for getting a new SQL Server DBA job, using alias names for SQL Servers, database going into suspect mode during disaster recovery, SQL Constant Care "Too Much Memory" warning, index operational statistics, running newer versions of SQL Server with databases in older version compat mode, and more!
This week, Erik and Richie discuss monitoring tools, finding all unused tables across databases, query tuning, deleting vs hanging on to indexes, sharding databases, query editors, aggressively-locked indexes, why a plan would not be in the plan cache, and Richie's current housing situation.
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This week, Erik and Richie discuss whether it's relevant to specify data in logs in SQL cloud environment, licensing, using canary tables on Availability Groups, how Entity Framework limits tuning, reusing older databases, and more.
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This week, Brent, Erik, and Tara discuss their SQL server specialization, CPU-ready time, making SSIS changes globally rather than one at a time, creating an Always On AG farm, Azure managed instances, going from log shipping to Availability Groups, tracking folks that executed queries, moving databases into Availability Groups, an exciting update to SQL Server 2016, and Brent's upcoming move across country.
This week, Brent, Richie, and Erik discuss best account practices for SQL Server, change tracking, disabled indexes, measuring queries to gauge their speed, overcoming issues between Management Studio and integration services, deadlocks and long-running processes, query tuning, and lock escalation.
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This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss using SQL Server 2016 vs 2017 for production environment, reporting, reindexing jobs, Azure vs Amazon, parameter sniffing, creating custom alerts for agent jobs, activity monitor, troubleshooting SQL Server 2014, replication, turning off auto-updating stats on tempdb, and why Brent can't get a tan.
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This week, we're sharing Instant Replay videos from our training classes. Last but not least this week, Andy Leonard is talking about the Extract-Load-Transform design pattern in SSIS - different from the old Extract-Transform-Load:
https://vimeo.com/259048273
This week, we're sharing Instant Replay videos from our training classes. Next up is Pinal Dave talking about missing index requests from the dynamic management views. It doesn't matter whose script you use - they're all built atop SQL Server's missing-index DMVs, and they all have the same limitations. Treat the missing index requests the same way you would treat appetizers in a restaurant - if you order an appetizer and it's no good, don't order more dishes.
This week, we're sharing some of the Instant Replay videos from our training classes. First up is Drew Furgiuele talking about PowerShell functions and parameters:
https://vimeo.com/261640343
Someone comes running in and asks, "Are you doing something on the SQL Server right now? Can you take a look at it? It seems really slow." It's one of the most common complaints we get about our databases - and yet, most of us don't have a written plan with what steps to take, in order.
The first paper on cost-based query optimization was published in 1979 by Patricia Selinger from IBM Research. This paper laid the basic framework for optimizing relational queries that is still in place today. While there have been many technical enhancements since 1979, query optimizers still fail to pick the best plan when faced with a complex SQL query.
Several months ago, Erik said something like, "We should do a performance art piece where one person does the talking, while another person does demos that contradicts everything they say."
I thought it was a brilliant idea. We just had to find the right place and time to try it, and find the right topic. When we got the chance to speak at the 24 Hours of PASS 2018, we figured it was a perfect fit.
This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss using foreign keys in a data warehouse, SQL Server virtualization on Hyper-V clusters, having all of your SQL Server instances under the same active directory account, updating stats, changing job ownership, why you would want to go to SQL Azure, and why they have an issue with replication.
This week, Brent and Richie discuss using full-text index, Elasticsearch, server restart issues, sp_blitzfirst, Always On availability groups, issues with users connecting to SQL Server, learning the basics of Python on SQL Server 2017, VMWare Hyper-V configuration issue, and more.
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This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss index maintenance, stats updates, the acquisition of GitHub, using linked servers to move tables across, talking to developers as a DBA, the best cloud option, setting the number of tempdb files, and their favorite SQL Server features.
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This week, Brent, Erik, Tara and Richie discuss severity 16 error warning, best way to move databases from SQL 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2014, adding Analysis services to a cluster, taking to higher management, deadlocks in a transaction log shipping setup, syncing date between an on-prem and Azure SQL DB server, log backups, renaming SQL Server VMs, Docker, SP_Blitz question, and more.
