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[Video] Office Hours 2017/02/1 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss AlwaysOn Availability Groups, execution plans, speeding up log shipping, applying wrong service packs, why servers “page wildly” when copying mid to large-size files from one SQL server to another, their favorite high availability solutions, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office…
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[Video] Office Hours 2017/01/18 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss sp_Blitz capabilities, what’s best to use for resolving SQL performance issues, CDC, tools for capturing wait stats, their favorite monitoring tools, temp tables vs table variables, partitioning with constraints, and whether you should get any certifications. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office…
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Build Me A Build: What’s Your Hardware Budget?

Hardware
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UPDATED 12/15/2016 Spending Brent’s Money Reason number infinity spacetime + 1000 why working here rules is having a generous annual tax writeoff hardware budget. The first time around, I basically blew it all on working from home essentials. This time around I’m building a cool toy: a big beefy desktop. Why, in the age of…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/11/16 (With Transcriptions)

This week Richie, Tara, and Erik discuss replication, mirroring, memory grants, sp_BlitzCache, failover cluster instances, VLFs, restoring databases, qualifying schema and object names, multiple instances, and table variables. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/10/19 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent (and only Brent) answers your questions about table partitioning, best practices for VMware configuration, rebuilding indexes, transitioning from physical SQL failover cluster to VMware or Hyper-V, database backups, security issues with cross-database chaining, and why you should never use vague adjectives when describing database sizes. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can…
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Updated First Responder Kit: sp_Blitz markdown output, sp_BlitzIndex statistics checks

In addition to lots of bug fixes and tweaks, my favorite option is: sp_Blitz @OutputType = ‘markdown’ sp_Blitz @OutputType = ‘markdown’, @CheckServerInfo = 1, @CheckUserDatabaseObjects = 1 See, recently I’ve spent a lot of time looking at Stack questions going, “Man, if I just had the output of sp_Blitz, I bet I could answer that question…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/09/28 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Richie, Tara, and Erik, discuss non-clustered indexes, dynamic SQL, replication, setups for servers dedicated to reporting services and warehouse databases, cross-cluster migrations, employment opportunities in the current market, and much, much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on…
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Tara Kizer

Asynchronous Database Mirroring vs. Asynchronous Availability Groups

When Database Mirroring came out in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, we quickly dropped Log Shipping as our Disaster Recovery solution. Log Shipping is a good feature, but I can failover with Asynchronous Database Mirroring faster than I can with Log Shipping. When Always On Availability Groups (AG) came out in SQL Server 2012,…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/09/07 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Richie, Erik, and Tara discuss parameter sniffing, database backups, referential integrity in databases, clustering, creating and using indexes, in-place upgrades, bench marking tools, and more. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/08/31 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Richie, and Tara discuss corruption, resetting query stats, fixing parameter sniffing issues, how to suggest features for our scripts, and why Brent is sporting an Oracle sweatshirt. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Enjoy the Podcast?…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/08/24 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Richie and Erik discuss in-place instance upgrades, availability groups, the cloud, job security, business intelligence and user adoption, and much more! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Office Hours Webcast – 2016-08-24   Erik Darling: First one,…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016 2016/06/01 (With Transcriptions)

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This week, Brent, Angie, Erik, Tara, Jessica, and Richie discuss SSMS issues, security auditing, snapshot replication, SSIS Cache Connection Manager, AlwaysON Availability Groups, deadlocks, and Jessica’s trip to Mexico. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Office Hours Webcast – 2016-06-01…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016 2016/05/18 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Angie, Erik, Jessica, and Richie discuss sp_Blitz® updates, merge replication, detecting index fragmentation, how to punish your DBAs, and Brent’s new chroma key backdrop. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. Jessica Connors: Let’s talk about some merge…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016 2016/05/11

This week, Brent, Angie, Erik, Jessica, Richie, and Tara discuss backups, failover events, tempdb errors, errors, other errors… oh, did we mention errors? Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen on the go. How do you feel about third party backup software? Jessica…
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What Is a Staging Environment and How Do You Build One?

Architecture, SQL Server
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If you’re a full time production database administrator, you need a staging environment. This is where you test infrastructure tasks like failing over mirroring, doing a disaster recovery role swap, cluster quorum changes, log shipping configuration, and patching. You need to test this stuff repeatedly so that when you’re under pressure in the production environment, you…
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