May Updates for SQL Server Cumulative Update #4 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now available. KB Article: KB #2833645. Build Number is 11.0.3368. Applicable to @@VERSION 11.0.3000 through 11.0.3367. Release announcement from blogs.msdn.com.
SQL Server Central Management Servers have a number of great features such as, policy enforcement, spawning group connection query windows, and organizing your list of servers. The server list is what I wanted to talk about today. I find this…
As a database administrator it is our jobs to maintain healthy database servers. So what does that really mean? Well, unfortunately, everything. We must respond to and fix existing issues. We must notice issues, usually in the form of alert…
Any of us who have been responsible for managing transactional replication knows that bad commands are possible and do happen. So, we have a less than perfect solution which requires DBA intervention to correct certain problems. So what do we…
I find myself a little wrapped up with Brent Ozar’s sp_Blitz. I’m not sure if I’ve hit the point of infatuation yet but I this will be my fourth post regarding this one stored procedure. Temporary Stored Procedures Ten Free…
May Updates for SQL Server Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available. KB Article: KB #2834048. Build Number is 10.00.5840. Applicable to @@VERSION 10.00.5500 through 10.00.5435. Release announcement from blogs.msdn.com.
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Using the Availability Group Listener In this, final, section of the AlwaysOn blog series I will be explaining the Availability Group (AG) listener and how it can be used to off-load some server…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn How to: Fail-over In this part of the blog series we will go over the various methods of manually failing over an Availability Group. Naturally if you are using automatic fail-over then there…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Explanation of Components Now that we have our AlwaysOn configuration setup I’d like to go over some of the components. Some are very self explanatory such as the Availability Replicas, Databases, and Group…
The other day I was doing some research on the Transaction Log of SQL Server and stumbled upon the MS SQL Server MCM Readiness videos, many of which are made by Paul Randal. After watching just one of these videos…