Database Administration Danny Kruge in Database Administration Changing Data Types on Large Tables: The INT to BIGINT Conundrum Changing a data type seems like a simple task unless the table is quite large and downtime must be kept... 19 February 2018 10 min read
Career Monica Rathbun in Career How to Survive as a Lone DBA Database administrators have enormous responsibility whether they manage one or hundreds of servers. Monica Rathbun tells us how she survived... 06 February 2018 16 min read
Database Administration Darko Martinović in Database Administration Building a Custom Blocked Process Report Blocking in SQL Server is normal behavior, but excessive blocking can lead to many complaints and is a symptom of... 05 January 2018 31 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration Still More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot As the final entry in this series, Robert Sheldon leads you through a group of forgotten features that have been... 17 November 2017 15 min read
Database Administration Dennes Torres in Database Administration Checking SQL Server with Policy-Based Management Policy-Based Management, a feature of SQL Server, is a flexible tool that can help DBAs manage one or more SQL... 09 November 2017 15 min read
Database Administration Dennes Torres in Database Administration Extended Events Profiler (XE Profiler) in SSMS Starting in SSMS version 17.3, we have an interesting new feature: Extended Events Profiler (XE Profiler). This new feature is in... 20 October 2017 2 min read
Laerte Junior Questions About Amazon Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) That You Were Too Shy to Ask Can you imagine it? You are in a group of smart database people, and they are debating the finer points... 18 October 2017 9 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration Even More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot SQL Server works well, and Microsoft does everything it can to keep it relevant and competitive: As with everything in... 18 October 2017 13 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Easy way to create policies using SSMS SSMS has an interesting feature that turns easy the creation of policies to check our servers compliance. Right-clicking an item... 09 October 2017 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Monitoring SQL Server with Power BI Query Store is becoming more and more important for server monitoring, specially in SQL Server 2017, which allows us to... 04 October 2017 2 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot SQL Server produces some great features, but it would be impossible to get them spot-on target every time. We are... 20 September 2017 14 min read
Laerte Junior Questions About RDS SQL Server That You Were Too Shy to Ask There are a number of different ways that you can host SQL Server. RDS SQL Server, for example, uses SQL... 13 September 2017 12 min read
Dennes Torres How much should you worry about CXPACKET? Several experts already wrote about CXPACKET before, there are plenty of articles about this subject on the internet, so, why... 11 September 2017 3 min read
Database Administration Brent Ozar in Database Administration Six Scary SQL Surprises The working life of the DBA can be punctuated by surprises, but they aren't generally nice surprises. This is especially... 06 September 2017 24 min read
Opinion Pieces Robert Sheldon in Opinion Pieces The SQL Server Features that Time Forgot Every new release of SQL Server comes with new features that cause a ripple of excitement within the industry: well,... 23 August 2017 12 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Monitoring UnmatchedIndexes Warning If you are using filtered indexes in SQL Server, it worthwhile monitoring the UnmatchedIndexes warning, it can give us very... 07 August 2017 4 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Auto Starting SQL Server Agent I faced this problem some years ago. The company I was working for had a lot of clients with very... 17 July 2017 2 min read
Database Administration Laerte Junior in Database Administration SQL Server High CPU: Investigating the Causes Any DBA who is trying to find the cause of an intermittent problem such as SQL Server high CPU dreams... 17 July 2017 9 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs SQL Server 2017: New ‘Queries with high variation’ Graph A few weeks ago I published an interesting article about how to use query store to identify parameterization problems. At... 30 June 2017 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs New T-SQL Functions in SQL Server 2017 SQL Server 2017 brings us some new T-SQL functions. They are very simple to use, and can also help us... 28 June 2017 5 min read
