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 similar to what I see working with other clients on a daily basis. Centricity is a solid product, when you run into performance issues, they can often …
Reliable DBA Services is one of the things I talk about on my business website at http://StedmanSolutions.com, but that can mean many things to different people. To me this has many meanings. Today the reliability of having RAID10 on my home office computer saved the day. Drive Failure Last Year A year ago not long after starting working at …
Today marks the end of life of SQL Server 2005, originally release in November of 2005, this product has finally come to its end of life point. One of my favorite features that was introduced in SQL Server 2005 was Common Table Expressions. Another big item that was added to SQL Server 2005 was the SQL Server Management Studio. Its …
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One of my favorite queries this week is the following query that creates a text based bar chart to quickly help visualize the VLF files on any database log file. In the last month I have given the “TempDB Do This and Don’t Do That” presentation twice, once at the Bellingham SQL Server users group, and another time at SQL …
Today I am presenting my “TempDB – Do This and Don’t Do That” session at SQL Saturday Redmond. Here is the download of the presentation and samples. StedmanTempDbPresentation.zip Some of the sample code from the session: I hope you enjoy the session.
The TL;DR summary: Life is good, business is good, and I am loving it. Ready to roll with Year 2 of Stedman Solutions, LLC. The Details It has been an interesting year. I officially formed the business about 3 years ago, but never worked at it regularly until April 1, 2015. Prior to April 1, 2015 had a full time …
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It can be a bit time consuming to work through the the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) user interface to check on the agent job history to find specific agent jobs that have been run. To help speed that process up, I created the following TSQL script to directly query the job history. This query makes use of a common table …
Back in 2012 when I was writing my Common Table Expressions book, I came up with the following CTE in a function to split a string into rows. Original Post: http://stevestedman.com/2012/04/using-a-cte-to-split-a-string-into-rows/ At the time, I thought it was pretty handy function, I ended up including it as an example in my CTE book, and I have used it dozens of …
The check for excessive sysmaintplan_logdetail has be added to the Database Health Monitor – Quick Scan Report. If you haven’t had a maintenance plan to clean up maintenance plan history, it can grow excessively over time. I recently worked on a SQL Server that had 6 years worth of maintenance plan history, and the msdb.dbo.sysmaintplan_logdetail table was approaching nearly 1gb in …
The check for Cost Threshold for Parallelism check has be added to the Database Health Monitor – Quick Scan Report. The Cost Threshold For Parallelism setting in SQL Server controls the level at which the query optimizer decides to have a query be processed using parallelism, or multiple threads. The default setting is 5 which may have made sense 15 years ago in …