I had a messy (another one) day, last thing I wanted was a “broken” SQL Server instance where I was faced with multiple “service terminated unexpectedly” messages. I thought it would make a decent blog post to share with you all.
A very quick post for today, recently I have been working on some code to gather metrics around SQL Server memory, more specifically, how much memory is on your server, your total / target memory and PLE. (If you want to know more about total vs target see this link: https://blobeater.blog/2017/03/01/sql-server-target-vs-total-memory/)
They are watching me and my Azure SQL Database and recently I noticed a low impact performance recommendation was made. Naturally I became very interested. Within your database (when in the portal) under operations you may notice something similar to the below:
A quick post that is hopefully useful, I wanted a quick way to find the time, size of the database file size change and who caused it.
Setting up AD authentication with Azure SQL Database sounds simple, it is assuming you plan carefully. I did run into issues but once rectified it felt great using AD authentication in Azure rather than just SQL logins.
Hopefully you know the relevance and importance of setting a correct value for max memory on your SQL Server. By default it will be the value 2147483647 which is not a random number but the 8th Mersenne prime! In a computing sense it is the maximum positive value for a 32-bit signed binary integer and that is big.
After using Microsoft SQL Server for over 10 years going back to MySQL feels weird BUT with Azure it is really easy to build a MySQL database and I have a feeling that this might be the start of an incoming change for some. For this post I want to show you what Azure currently offers I then create a MySQL database and connect to it via Azure Cloud Shell.
Have you heard of SQLskills? Have you heard of the waits library? If not then where have you been hiding?
I did a dangerous thing, and I want to make sure that YOU DO NOT do the same.
I was creating a couple of extended events sessions and was playing around with some actions. I ended up with the following code where I was after a guy called Shane:
I got bored (really bored) one weekend I decided to challenge myself. I had corruption within a specific table (localised within a page) with no backups handy only an old image of the data files. The challenge being salvage data without attaching the data files.
