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October 2016

Visualizing VLF’s – Updated

A while back a wrote a blog post with a query to Visualize the VLF’s in your database. Today I have an update to that script.

Here is an updated script that has adds another column called “TextStatus” to the output to give you a better idea of what the different statuses mean. You now get 3 statuses shown, “In Use”, “Available”, and “Available Never Used”. The If you have lots of VLFs that are “Available Never Used” that may be an indication that your log file may be larger than you need. If you don’t have any that are “Available Never Used” the log may be smaller than you need.

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When Database Corruption Strikes – Summit 2016

Today I had the pleasure presenting my session “When Database Corruption Strikes” as PASS Summit 2016. I want to thank PASS and the program committee for this great opportunity to present on a topic that I enjoy so much… Database Corruption and how to fix it.

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Here is a shot from my point of view about 10 minutes before the session began.

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