Let’s start off with a quick overview of SQL Server versions and compatibility levels.
So with SQL Server 2017 now available to the public what level is a newly created Azure SQL Database set at?
With Halloween around the corner what better topic to discuss than phantom reads. A phantom read occurs when rows have been inserted after a read operation and becomes visible in a follow-up read operation within the same transaction.
So I had a corruption issue and I was thinking about running repair but I wanted to know what would potentially get deleted.
Here is a quick Extended Events script I knocked up where I wanted to track Tempdb file size changes for both the data and log file. I wanted to know who caused the tempdb growth, when it was done, what the T-SQL was and what sizes were involved. Not exactly complicated but hopefully useful.
You have the ability to actually pause SQL Server, if you are in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you might have noticed it as the below image.
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