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[Video] Office Hours 2016/06/29 (With Transcriptions)
This week, Erik, Richie, Doug, and Angie discuss a script for getting more information on a specific index, using partition tables, shrinking data and log files, stress testing SQL servers, as well as...
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Screenshot Interview Question: “What would you do if you saw this?”
In this week’s episode of our screenshot interview series, you’re applying for a database professional position who will be on call. You’re not necessarily the DBA, but you’re a member of the team on...
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Breaking News: 2016 Query Store cleanup doesn’t work on Standard or Express...
If you’re using SQL Server 2016’s awesome new feature, Query Store, there’s a new bug with automatic cleanup. Books Online explains: Automatic data cleanup fails on editions other than Enterprise and...
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TDE and Backup Compression: Together At Last
TDE is one of those things! You either need it, and quickly learn how many things it plays the devil with, or you don’t need it, and there but for the grace of God go you. Off you go, with your...
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The Top 10 Feature Requests for SQL Server on Connect.Microsoft.com
When a man loves a woman very much, he goes to Connect.Microsoft.com and upvotes her feature requests. I was curious to see what requests were resonating the most with folks, so I went through the list...
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Availability Group Direct Seeding: Mind Your Backup Jobs
I’ll get right to the point While you’re Direct Seeding, you have to be careful with any other full or differential backup jobs running on the server. This is an artifact of the Direct Seeding process,...
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Last Day Shenanigans
To follow up on my NY Times Best Selling blog post On First Day Deal Breakers, here’s something you can do on your last day, as a friendly reminder that everyone is losing a valued team member. Change...
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/07/06 (With Transcriptions)
This week, Brent, Jessica, Richie, Doug, and Angie discuss snapshot replication, file and table-level restores, whether you should enable lock pages in memory, redistributing data across files or a...
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New Sample Databases From Microsoft
In celebration of AdventureWorks being out of business for a decade Microsoft has released a couple new databases. Wide World Importers is a fresh-faced start up, probably a drug smuggling front, run...
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SQL Server 2014 SP2: DBCC CLONEDATABASE
Getting developers production data stinks DBAs are stuck in this annoying cycle where they need to give developers production, or production-like data, but… Production data can be huge. Hundreds of...
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New Course: Statistics – SQL Server’s Guessing Game
Closed captioned for your statistical pleasure You have to make queries go faster, and you suspect that outdated or inaccurate statistics are hurting your execution plans. Doug Lane is here to help...
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Can Adding an Index Make SQL Server 2016…Worse?
Using the StackOverflow database, let’s check out Krock’s query. He’s a competitive fella, and he’s looking to find users who signed up for StackOverflow after he did, but who have a higher reputation...
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Why Not Just Create Statistics?
Here at Brent Ozar Unlimited We have a proud tradition of not blaming index fragmentation for everything. There are points you should deal with it, but they’re probably not 5% and 30% and 1000 pages....
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New Ways to Buy Our Video Training Classes
Our class inventory has been growing lately – especially with Doug’s awesome new video on statistics – and it’s time to make things easier: The DBA Bundle – $399 – includes our classes on HA/DR,...
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[Video] Office Hours 2016/07/13 (With Transcriptions)
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...
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New SQL Server First Responder Kit for 2016-07
SQL Server 2012 SP3, 2014 SP2, and 2016 users are going to find a lot of stuff to love in here. The new per-query memory grants fields in the plan cache are exposed in sp_BlitzCache, and sp_BlitzFirst...
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Well, That Sucked: Laying Off Half the Company
Company retreat, 2016 I always wanna be honest with you, dear reader, and let you see how running a lil’ consulting shop goes. It’s been fun sharing a lot of our happy growing moments along the way....
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Announcing Dell DBA Days 2016: The SQL
This August, we’re goin’ back to Texas. Last year, we flew the team out to Round Rock, Dell’s HQ, and ran all kinds of SQL Server experiments in their hardware labs. We broadcasted a whole bunch of...
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How to Contribute Code to the SQL Server First Responder Kit (Github)
So you’d like to fix a bug or contribute code to the First Responder Kit, but you’re new to Github. Let’s get started. 1. Open a new issue on Github. Go to the Github issues list for this repo, and...
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Updated High Availability and Disaster Recovery Planning Worksheet
One of the most popular things in our First Responder Kit is our HA/DR planning worksheet. Here’s page one: Page 1 – how our servers are doing now, versus what the business wants In the past, we had...
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