I was hoping to have a case of the Mondays the other day. Whenever one hopes for “the Mondays”, Monday will always deliver. I was using a new PC at a client and installing some tools for an assessment that I was working on. After some download and installing, Best Practices Analyzer 2005 was installed … Continue reading BPA Installs But Doesn’t Work
This project has been on CodePlex for a while, but I thought I would give it a plug. It’s a really good way to generate a load against a SQL Server without a lot of effort. I've used it quite a number of times with presentations and use it when testing different code choices to … Continue reading SQL Load Generator
This is the sixth and last for now post in which I’m going through a query that can be used to analyze indexes. Thus far the following has been added to the query: Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Find the relationship between indexes … Continue reading Analyze This – Analyze Your Indexes – Part 6
This is the fifth post in which I am walking through a query that I use to analyze indexes. Thus far I have added to the following to the query that I use: Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Find the relationship between indexes … Continue reading Analyze This – Analyze Your Indexes – Part 5
This is the fourth post in which I am walking through a query that I use to analyze indexes. Thus far I have added to the following to the query that I use: Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes Find the relationship between indexes … Continue reading Analyze This – Analyze Your Indexes – Part 4
This is the third post in which I am walking through a query that I use to analyze indexes. Thus far I have added to the following to the query that I use: Combine existing index statistics and missing indexes into a single output Find existing duplicate and overlapping indexes An error in the WHERE … Continue reading Analyze This – Analyze Your Indexes – Part 3
This is the second post in which I am walking through a query that I use to analyze indexes. For some reason the grammar on the title of the first post was a bit jacked so I’ve corrected it for this post and the all following ones. Here’s a summary of what I’ve added to … Continue reading Analyze This – Analyze Your Indexes – Part 2
Shrinks have no idea what’s wrong with you when you walk in the door. In you come you try to describe what appears to be the problem and then they start asking about your mother. But you don’t want to talk about your mother, most likely you’d like some relief to whatever the concern is … Continue reading Analyze This – Your Indexes Analysis – Part 1
Have you ever needed the definition of a view, stored procedure, or user defined function? I sure hope you have - otherwise reading any more of this posting will be more than pointless. For those of you still with me, have you ever also not wanted to find that definition without have to browse through … Continue reading I Don’t Want To Use the Object Browser (sp_helptext)
Not a really hard thing to figure out, but for some crazy reason I always forget. So, hopefully actually writing it out for the world to see will help me remember. Since tempdb is created every time that SQL Server restarts, the created date for that database can be used to determine the last time … Continue reading Last Time SQL Server Restarted
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