Introduction: In my years of working with SQL Server, I’ve encountered a variety of common mistakes that can impact performance and database health. In this… Read More »Common SQL Server Mistakes and How To Avoid Them

Elevating SQL Server Performance with Managed Services from Stedman Solutions In the realm of database management, SQL Server stands out for its robustness, scalability, and… Read More »SQL Server Performance with Managed Services

Here is a video that I created on Indexing for Performance, some of the techniques that I use when doing performance tuning: Steve Stedman Founder/Owner… Read More »How to: Indexing for Performance

Today Microsoft released a new update for SQL Server. SQL Server 2022 CU13 for 2022 (16.0.4125.3 – May 2024) CU12 + GDR (16.0.4120.1 – April… Read More »New SQL Update from Microsoft

Monitoring backups is an essential part of database administration, as it ensures that you have reliable and up-to-date backups in case of data loss or… Read More »Database Health: Monitoring Backups with Database Health Monitor

Database corruption in Microsoft SQL Server can result in critical data loss, disrupting business workflows. The meticulous process of identifying and repairing such corruption often… Read More »SQL Server Corruption: Stories About Causes of Corruption

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature of Microsoft SQL Server that enables the encryption of a databases data and log files, as well as… Read More »Securing SQL Server: Transparent Data Encryption

DBCC INPUTBUFFER is a DBCC command in Microsoft SQL Server that can be used to retrieve the last batch of Transact-SQL statements submitted through a… Read More »SQL Server DBCC Commands: DBCC INPUTBUFFER

Wait statistics, in the context of SQL Server, refer to the amount of time that a query spends waiting to access data in the database.… Read More »SQL Server Wait Type: LCK_M_U