Another re-post of a video from last year, this time showing you an in-built protection of setting max server memory for your SQL Server. You can clearly see that if you enter a silly figure such as 50 MB, the minimum memory amount allowable for max server memory is 128 MB. You will see SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) change it to 128MB.
A quick video clip showing how to create a deadlock in SQL Server and find information about it.
It has been a while since I have participated in a T-SQL Tuesday but I felt the urge to do so this month because of the host – Shane O’Neill (a good friend) and the topic of cookies (not the edible type).
I personally think that query store has been a fantastic feature. I find myself using it for query performance troubleshooting (plan regressions is a big one). This has always been available since SQL Server 2016 and even Azure SQL Database but now Microsoft have made it available for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (DW).
If you connect to the Azure SQL DW via SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) there is no Query Store Node (for the version, I was checking 17.9.1). I was even wondering if it was on by default?
I seem to be writing solely about Azure so to shake things up a bit I am going back to my “roots”. In SQL Server your differential backup is cumulative and NOT incremental and a differential will contain the data that has changed since the last full backup.
Let’s dig in using DBCC PAGE.
Checking out the transaction log in Azure SQL Database. If you are curious like me, you will want to know about what your transaction log is doing in the cloud. The following queries have been tested and run okay within Azure SQL Database. It gives you some great insight.
You will very likely know that SQL Server 2008 / R2 end of support is on July 9th 2019. Not that long to start thinking about and assessing your options. For this post I just want to discuss couple of things that you can do and I specifically mention Azure technologies, think of this as a high level starter guide.
Being the start of the new year and with new projects most likely starting again I would like to share with you an article I wrote a while back, but still quite relevant.
Hopefully you find it useful for those wanting to know key differences between Azure SQL Database and a locally installed SQL Server from a DBA perspective and whether or not these key differences can be seen as advantages or disadvantages.
Once again I would like to share with you an article I wrote about backing up (and restoring) a SQL Server database to Azure Blob Storage. In this article I write about some important concepts and show you the code needed to do this. This includes all the lovely components such as SQL Server credentials, secrets and SAS etc.
I wrote a guest article for an IT consultancy on Azure SQL Database, more specifically DTUs and vCore options. At a high level I discuss what both options are, the differences and what you should select. Hopefully you will find it useful. Please see the link below:
