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24 Hours of PASS – Advanced CTE Presenation
Today I am presenting on Advanced Common Table Expressions as part of the 24 Hours of PASS conference. It is being webcast so check it out if you can. The outline for the presentation will be the...
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SQL Server Mentoring – Now Available
Yesterday I was asked by a client about consulting questions and for my help without the typical minimum hourly commitment. He pointed out that he has things that he could use help with that don’t...
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Silencing Backup Messages with Trace Flag 3226
As a DBA you regularly schedule backups you might have regular full backups, incremental backups and hopefully regular backups. Over time you might realize that your error log is not longer filled with...
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Introduction to SQL Server Class
From September 15th 2015 to October 1st 2015 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings I will be teaching a Introduction to SQL Server class. Interested you can sign up here: Class Info and Signup Introduction...
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mssqlsystemresource Database
I was looking through my SQL Server error logs to confirm that CheckDB was being run as I had scheduled based on my previous post to run DBCC CheckDB on all databases. I wanted to confirm that there...
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Max Server Memory – SQL Server
Max Server Memory Setting Explained If you have more memory than your database and applications on the SQL Server will ever use than this is not a problem, but when you run into memory constraints this...
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Using SQL Server Compressed Backups
The Quick Scan report in Database Health Monitor detects when you are performing SQL Server backups without compression, when the compression option is available. This applies to Full backups,...
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Database Health Version 2.2 Released Today
Today I have the pleasure of releasing the next version of the Database Health Monitor application. Currently at version 2.2, I have been working on this since 2011, and I have introduced some new...
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2015 Review
What 2015 meant to me and my business. Stedman Solutions, LLC – Startup After unexpectedly leaving a regular full time employment position on March 31st 2015, the very next day April 1st 2015, Stedman...
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GE Centricity EMR Performance Tuning.
I have been doing work with multiple clients using the GE Centricity EMR product which makes extensive use of Microsoft SQL Server. The performance issues that you run into with Centricity are very...
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DBCC ShrinkDatabase – I want to shrink my database.
TL;DR summary: Don’t do it. Stop reading here if you want, but just don’t do it. This post refers to shrinking your database files (mdf, or ndf files), not shrinking the log file. The log file is a...
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Duplicate Indexes, What a Waste
Today on the tuning minute on the SQL Data Partners Podcast, we discussed duplicate indexes, which lead me to think more about and and write this post. You know there are many different ways of doing...
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Database Corruption Overview for Beginners
Database Corruption Overview: Database corruption is one of those things that you can only plan for by practicing your response plan. Out of all of the things that can happen to your SQL Server this is...
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Don’t Reboot SQL Server So Often
How often should I reboot SQL Server? It is a common belief with computers that rebooting cleans things up in memory and that they run better if they are rebooted more often. With your windows desktop...
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Podcast Episode – The Long Awaited Index Episode
For a couple of months we have had requests on the SQL Data Partners Podcast to do an episode on indexing. It is my pleasure to announce that the Indexing episode (episode 81) was released today, well...
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DBCC FREEPROCCACHE – What is the impact.
Here is a question that I received from a friend today and I thought it would be a good post explaining the details: Steve, I have a question on DBCC FREEPROCCACHE. I used sp_blitzcache from Brent and...
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Database Corruption Repair Presentation
I discovered this recording from a Database corruption repair presentation that I did a few years ago: Related Links Corruption Repair by Stedman Solutions Corruption Challenge The post Database...
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Why is my log file not shrinking when I do regular backups?
I often times get the question similar to “Why is my log file not shrinking when I do regular backups”? It goes to show there the functionality of the SQL Server transaction log is not entirely clear....
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When Database Corruption Strikes
Today I am presenting to the session “When Database Corruption Strikes” to the High Availability and Disaster Recovery PASS Virtual Chapter. Here is the abstract: You are working along month after...
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TSQL JOIN Types – SQL Saturday
Today I am presenting at SQL Saturday in Redmond Wa. My presentation is on SQL JOIN types. If you have seen my JOIN Types Poster, you should check it out. Download the slides and sample TSQL code:...
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