October 2023

Today Microsoft released a new update for SQL Server. SQL Server 2019 CU23 for 2019 (15.0.4335.1 – October 2023) CU22 + GDR (15.0.4326.1 – October… Read More »New SQL Update from Microsoft

In the dynamic world of databases, ensuring optimal performance and robustness is crucial. Yet, many businesses often sideline database assessments, unaware of the untapped potential… Read More »Why Every Business Needs Stedman Solutions’ SQL Server Health Assessment

Today Microsoft released a new update for SQL Server. SQL Server 2012 CU10 for SP3 (11.0.6607.3 – August 2017) CU16 for SP2 (11.0.5678.0 – January… Read More »New SQL Update from Microsoft

I have used my over 30 years of SQL Server experience to personally curate my favorite performance tuning tips and tricks into this training. I… Read More »Exclusive SQL Performance Tuning Training

Out of all of the customers we have running our daily monitoring here are the versions of SQL Server that are being run. All the… Read More »Daily Server Monitoring – SQL Versions for October

The SQL Server MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait is one of many performance related waits on SQL Server. Wait statistics, in the context of SQL Server, refer to… Read More »SQL Server Wait Type: MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT

At Stedman Solutions we have done many corruption repairs since 2015. When I talk about corruption, most of this information comes from real world scenarios… Read More »SQL Server Corruption: What Can Get Corrupted

DBCC SHRINKFILE is a database console command (DBCC) in Microsoft SQL Server that can be used to reduce the size of a data or log… Read More »SQL Server DBCC Commands: DBCC SHRINKFILE