In preparation for a SQL Saturday presentation I have created another report to add to the FREE SQL Server Health reports project.   The Database Size Report has been added to the SQL Health Reports.  The Database Size Report  is the 6th report to be added to the Database Health Reports package. The Database Health reports package is a FREE …

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I submitted another abstract for SQL Saturday titled TSQL Basics – SQL Server Join Types. Focusing on inner join, left outer join, right outer join, full outer join, cross join and self join. This is for the SQL Saturday in Vancouver BC sessions. That makes three sessions for Vancouver now. I still need to figure out the selection process to …

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As part of my planning for the SQL Saturday Presentation in Vancouver I am creating an hour long presentation on Common Table Expressions. The easiest way to do a recursive query in SQL server is to use a recursive CTE (Common Table Expression). What is a Common Table Expression in SQL Server? Similar to the ease of a temporary table …

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After creating and deploying the duplicate indexes report earlier today I discovered that although the report did exactly what it says, it didn’t do what I needed. The earlier  duplicate indexes report only found indexes that were an exact match on the columns.  And that is useful to track down, it didn’t point out indexes that were similar, but had additional columns. …

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After yesterdays Long Running Queries Report, I have decided to add one more SQL Server Health report. A duplicate indexes report has been added to the Server Health reports. With this report you can track down time waste associated with duplicate indexes. Here is a sample of the new free report. This is part of my growing collection of free SSRS reports to …

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I just submitted abstracts to SQL Saturday  #114 in Vancouver and #108 in Redmond. The Redmond SQL Saturday appears to be the more popular of the two.  Who knows if my session will get accepted, but I am giving it a shot.   Using SSRS reports to analyze SQL Server health Assessing the health of your SQL Server with Several …

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