A recent project involved setting up encrypted connections on all our SQL Servers. To this we would have to install a certificate in on the server and restart the SQL Server service. Direction on how to do this on an individual instance are provided by Microsoft. We have test environments
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Kendra Little (blog | @Kendra_Little). Kendra asked to write about interviewing patterns and anti-patterns and to be careful to protect our past/current employers and candidates. I’m going to talk about things I should have done better for interview that are really technical things
Introduction There is a lot of talk about what fill factor should be set for an index. We know for indexes that are ever increasing the fill factor should be set to 100% but for those indexes that are on things like last name or birthday it gets a bit
In last part of the series, we will touch on how to monitor availability groups using extended events. I prefer this method over using SQL Agent alerts just because I don’t like relying on the individual servers to send me emails. I like to have our central monitoring server send
Recently I came across on Twitter a question from Chad Smith asking for advise on attending his first SQLSaturday. The fact is asking means he is already ahead of the game and he is on Twitter. I got him to follow me on Twitter and offered him the following the
As part of upgrading our SQL Servers to 2017 CTP 2.1 we have a process that runs afterwards that uses Invoke-Sqlcmd cmdlet but with SQL Server 2017, SQL Server PowerShell 2017 is a separate install from the PowerShell Gallery. So I wrote a process to that will install the SQL
I had a recent project to enable backup encryption on all our servers. Then question from the storage team came up will this required additional space. Well by then I had already enabled in all our test servers so I wrote a query that would compare the average size of
In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced to us the Query Store. This has been proven to be a very beneficial feature especially at my job, saved the day on Christmas Eve. One of the limitations if see is when you have server with several databases on it trying to find
Somehow I have become the R DBA at my job which I don’t mind, I plan on taking Microsoft’s Professional Program on Data Science to be familiar with it. But recently I’ve had to upload files to our R servers which the first time wasn’t too bad. Copy these files
In my last post on monitoring Availability Groups I covered looking at Perfmon Counters now we take a look at getting alerts from SQL Agent. When it comes to checking on your Availability Groups one of the easiest ways to keep track at a high level of the health of