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Trade Offs: Code Quality
What has two thumbs and is talking about code quality at SQL in the City Seattle? Nearly every day, we’re faced with a decision about quality and time. Do you write quick and dirty code or do you take...
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Who’s testing your restores? No, really – who’s testing your restores?
I recently posed the question, “Who’s taking your backups?” This is of utmost importance, because your business’s data is the business. Protecting it and backing it up need to be priorities for DBAs....
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Our Favorite (and Least Favorite) PASS Summit Moments [Video]
Brent and Kendra have been to several international SQL Server conferences, and they keep going back. Learn what they’ve loved about the annual PASS Summit – and what they wouldn’t mind missing. ...The...
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Our PASS Summit 2012 Schedule
Next week, the Brent Ozar Unlimited crew will be attending PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. It’s a busy week, full of networking, learning, and teaching. Here are a few of our highlights. Want to add our...
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Books, the Dewey Decimal System, and…SQL Server?
I have been in love with books and libraries most of my life. I remember some of my earliest favorites: Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, Bridge to Terebithia, The Chronicles of...
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#SQLPASS Summit Keynote Liveblog – Day 1
PASS Summit Keynote Day 1 Good morning, folks! Lights, camera, action – it’s time for the first keynote presentation at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit. It’s the annual...
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#SQLPASS Summit Keynote Liveblog Day 2
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! The conference hall is filling up in Seattle, and it’s time to crank up another blow-by-blow commentary. I’ll be updating this blog every few minutes with what’s...
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#SQLPASS Women in Technology Luncheon Live Blog
Hello from Seattle! I’m excited to be sitting front and center of the 10th Women in Technology Luncheon at PASS Summit! This year’s topic is “Women in Technology: Where Have We Been and Where Are We...
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What DBAs Need to Know About Hardware
If you became a database administrator by rising through the ranks of software developers, you probably haven’t built your own servers from the ground up. That’s totally okay – but you’re missing some...
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Creating Objects on a Specific Filegroup with Policy Based Management
At PASS Summit last week, I presented “The What, Why, And How of Filegroups” to a packed room. It was great to see so many people eager to learn about something that is fundamental to every SQL Server...
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Introducing the SQL Server Plan Cache (and a Better sp_Blitz™)
When you send your beautifully hand-crafted organic T-SQL statement to SQL Server, the database engine takes a moment to appreciate the poetry of your work. Before it turns your request into results,...
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Long Term Backup Storage With Amazon Glacier
A while back, Jes asked who’s taking your backups. Making sure you have good backups is important. How much thought are you giving to handling historical backups? Right now, there’s a really good...
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How to Set SQL Server Max Memory for VMware
SQL Server has two settings that kinda-sorta govern how much memory we’ll use to cache data: min server memory and max server memory. I explain the basics of how they work in my Sysadmin’s Guide to...
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SQL Server Management Studio: More than Meets the Eye
SSMS is the standard tool for working with SQL Server databases. It does the job well. But if you’re using the default settings, you’re missing out! You can enable word wrap and number the lines....
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PASS Summit Feedback: Top Ten AGAIN!
Wow. Just wow. I’m totally humbled to say that my sp_Blitz session and my AlwaysOn Availability Groups session were both voted among the best ten sessions at the PASS Summit 2012 conference. The...
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Backups Gone Bad: The Danger of Differentials
As your databases get bigger, you’re going to run out of time to do nightly full backups. You’re going to be tempted by the siren song of differential backups. The idea is that you’ll do full backups...
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Bob Dylan Explains TempDB (Video)
How many files must a TempDB have before it’s allowed to be fast? How many table variables must a server walk down before it’s considered a table? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, and Bob...
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SQL Server Management Studio: “Include Client Statistics” Button
I’m curious. I like to know how things work. I have to read the user manual of everything I buy so I know all of its features. I like clicking all the buttons in applications I work with. However, SQL...
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sp_Blitz v14 Adds VLFs, DBCC, Failsafe Operators, and More
Today, we’ve got a big one, and it’s all thanks to you. For the last couple of versions, I haven’t added any big features because I’d been focused on the plan cache improvements. Today, though, we’ve...
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Whither Hadoop?
Where Can You Use Hadoop? “Where can you use Hadoop?” isn’t an easy question to answer. An enterprising or creative person could probably figure out ways to replace the entire database infrastructure...
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