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[Video] Office Hours 2016/11/09 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Richie and Erik discuss log backups, migrating from SQL 2008 R2 to 2014, shrinking databases, tuning long-running queries, execution plans, sequencing, encryption, 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. Enjoy the Podcast? Don’t miss an…
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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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SQL Server Timeouts During Backups and CHECKDB

So you’re hosting your SQL Server in the cloud – say Amazon EC2, Azure VM, or Google Compute Engine – and you’ve noticed that when you’re running a backup or a DBCC CHECKDB, you suffer from extreme performance problems. Queries run slow, and even worse, applications report timeout errors even just trying to connect to…
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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 2016/08/24 (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 2016/07/13 (With Transcriptions)

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This week, Erik, Tara, Jessica, Doug, and Angie discuss queries, installing multiple instances of SQL server on a Windows VM, using DENY Database rules, migrating databases to Amazon RDS, availability groups, using filtered indexes, 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…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/06/15 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Brent, Angie, and Tara talk through your questions about monitoring tools, transactional replication, configuration management, source control software suggestions 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 – 2016-06-15 Why did some of…
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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 2016/06/08 (With Transcriptions)

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This week, Angie, Erik, Doug, Jessica, and Richie discuss DB migration, rebuilding large indexes, recommendation for SQL dev ops tools, best practices for disabling SA accounts, compression, 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. Office Hours Webcast –…
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Is your SAN’s cache killing tempdb?

SQL Server, Storage, TempDB
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Let’s start with definitions Many SANs have caching built in. What kind of cache is important, because if you’re dealing with non-SSD storage underneath, you could be waiting for a really long time for it to respond. Let’s start with some definitions of the most popular caching mechanisms available for SANs. I’m not going to…
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[Video] Office Hours 2016 2016/05/25 (With Transcriptions)

This week, Angie, Erik, Tara, and Richie discuss Veeam, replication, setting up alerts, using multiple instances, 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 – 2016-05-25 Does turning on trace flag 2861 cancel out optimize for…
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What to Do When DBCC CHECKDB Reports Corruption

The instant you encounter corruption in a production SQL Server database, stop. Read this entire article first to understand the big picture, and then come back here to take action. First, understand that you shouldn’t start by trying to repair the corruption. You may be facing a storage subsystem problem where your storage is corrupting…
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