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, 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…

This week, Brent, Tara, and Richie discuss relaying SQL Server performance updates to upper management, differential backups in AlwaysOn Availability environment, replication, Troubleshooting THREADPOOL Waits, an acceptable amount of preemptive waits, Postgres, and the technologies Richie is working with these days. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe…

This week @EdwinMSarmiento joins Brent, Tara, Erik, and Richie to discuss high availability disaster recovery, migrating from on-premises server to Amazon’s RDS, AlwaysON Availability Groups, auto-growth issues, rebuilding vs dropping/re-creating indexes, log shipping, using Service Broker with Always On Availability Groups, updating stats issues, VLF counts, measuring transaction log usage, upgrading versions, and much more.…

This week, Pinal Dave joins Brent, Tara, and Richie to discuss replication latency, partitioning tables, transactional replication, troubleshooting 3-rd party application performance, SQL ConstantCare® update, SQL Server errors, copying data over from a database with read-only access, reducing blocking timeouts, backups to the cloud, and more replication questions! Here’s the video on YouTube: You can…

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss replication, SQL Source Control with Git, installing service packs in cumulative updates in SQL Server, query tuning, write errors, log backups, Azure-managed instances, 3-rd party backup software, and DBA porn. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to…

This week, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss cloning databases without 3rd party software, tips for upgrading from 2005 to 2017, archiving databases, partitioning databases, version control, SQL Server settings, SSRS, moving database from stand-alone server to an AG cluster, limiting memory use at the query level, and mirroring. Here’s the video on YouTube: You can…

This week Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss truncating & repopulating, failed logins, their choice for high availability, PowerBI, read committed isolation, parameter sniffing, database mirroring, extended events and failing queries and re-indexing large tables. 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…

This week Tara, Erik, and Richie discuss virtualization, replication & mirroring, switching SQL service logins to an AD account, temporal tables, tempdb issues, migrating from SQL 2015, and Richie’s outdoor adventures in “Breath of the Wild.” Here’s the video on YouTube: You can register to attend next week’s Office Hours, or subscribe to our podcast to listen…

This week Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss filestream waits, what to use instead of filestream, Availability Groups & clusters, implicit data conversion, using snapshot backups, MERGE statement bugs, deadlocks, the future of on-prem servers, Erik’s new sp_Blitz lock, and if the SQL Server knowledge base “Virtual Assistant” can answer DBA interview questions. Here’s the video…

This week, Richie and Tara discuss Richie’s current projects, Availability Groups, offloading reads and backups, applying service packs, whether production should ship agent jobs to production recovery server, security checks and scans in SQL Server, CPU performance issues upgrading to SQL Server 2016 and 2017, database backups and restores, whether there’s currently a DBA shortage,…

This week, Brent, Erik, and Richie discuss the new Extended Events Profiler, using SQL audit vs a trigger to log what people do, log shipping, migrating from on-prem to cloud, best practice for a database owner, SQL Server performance improvement, the difference between simple, bulk-logged, and full recovery models and when to use them, tools…