Memory grants, now here's a fun thing that can pretty much take your SQL Server to its knees. The Symptoms The first thing that you're going to notice is that your SQL Server is going to be running slowly and I mean, slooooooow! When I've got a server on a serious go slow, the first... Continue Reading →
The SQL Installation file can be found here.The new Powershell installer can be found here.If you are running the powershell collection you will need to grab the latest revision.The latest powerBI template can be found here.As more features are documented they will be updated on the Inspector V2 page. New Features Schedule report windows and... Continue Reading →
In this episode, David looks at how we can encrypt our SQL Server backup files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UdX04fHQo&feature=youtu.be
Adrian looks at how you can use Excel to visualise SQL performance data, specifically data collected by the Blitz First Responder Kit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63HkWalXdRk
Sometimes you just want to get a quick row count for a specific table - other times you may want to see a list of tables order by size or row count or perhaps you are monitoring table row counts, whatever it is the chances are you have a script or various scripts stashed away... Continue Reading →
This is going to be a bit of a quick post but one about something that I see coming up time and time again on SQL Undercover's search terms. How do I find an availability group's primary server? A while back, Adrian put together a bunch of queries for Always On Availability Groups, 7 ways... Continue Reading →
In this episode of the podcast, Adrian looks at the scripting options available in SSMS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAVuOaWj2g
If you're running availability groups it may seem like a great idea to offload your read only reporting workloads to a secondary. There are a couple of ways that you could do that, you could use read only routing or simply just point those reports directly at a read only secondary (read only routing is... Continue Reading →
The first of our new series of new look podcasts, David has a look at intent locks in SQL Server and what the purpose of them is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44vNrHJR984
