It’s quite often at clients that I spend time working on issues revolving around parallelism. In fact, just this week it’s been the single most irritating performance problem that I've had to deal with. If you aren’t up to snuff on parallelism there are a couple places I would start with getting up to speed: … Continue reading Learning More About Parallelism
Ever have a Reporting Services (SSRS) subscription that didn’t fire off as you thought it should? Or was SQL Agent offline when subscriptions should have been fired? Or did you just create a subscription and want to find out if it’s been configured properly? Fortunately all of the information is sitting neatly and plainly in … Continue reading I Didn’t Receive My Subscription
When ever I go to a new client to assist with performance issues, I inevitably download the Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005 white paper. In my opinion and many others, it is one of those documents that should be at the click of a button to open and I keep it handy on … Continue reading Find Query Plans That May Utilize Parallelism
This won’t be the most exciting post. But hey, it’s Monday! What’s exciting about that? Maybe someone will bring in donuts. Or maybe I should since I am still on my couch and not headed to the office yet. Anyways, every now and then I need a big table to test some code out on … Continue reading Big Tempdb Table
A co-worker came over and asked how to round up to the nearest 1,000. He tried to use ROUND but found that it always split between going up or going down depending on the value and the report he was working on always had to round up. Almost before he finished asking, actually before he … Continue reading Rounding Up to the Nearest 1,000
I keep hearing this story and similar variations… ”On a dark and stormy night, I developed a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package. It worked wonderfully on my desktop development environment. All the files were properly accessed and the data was processed in a magnificent matter.” ”But suddenly I deployed the SSIS package to production … Continue reading Troubleshooting Permission Issues with CREDENITIALS
I put together a presentation on Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) a few months back and one of queries I put together for that presentation was a version of sp_who2 that provided similar results but used DMVs instead. The query has most of the same columns as sp_who2 with some additional items that I found useful … Continue reading DMV Version of sp_who2
Updated content at - Really Search Cache For Execution Plans Sometimes when I am working with clients I need to take a look at execution plans for different stored procedures. Rather than digging around with SQL Profiler or executing the stored procedures with what I think might be the parameters I like to '”return to the … Continue reading Search Cache For Execution Plans
Every now and then I need to put together demonstrations. I don’t usually like to “invent” data and like to look for sources of raw data on the internet. A friend forwarded me a link to http://www.google.org/flutrends. The site has a download for current and historical flu trends by state. Cool site and even cooler … Continue reading Raw Data
A few weeks back I was working on a process that would utilize foreign keys to crawl from table to table to export data from a production database to an archive database. More on some of what went into that process probably at some point in the future. When the project was released to production … Continue reading Find Duplicate Foreign Keys
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