It wasn't until the other day that I realised what the behaviour was when rolling back a transaction with an insert on a table with an identity column, to be fair I have never had a need to do so but I know that there are people who like to run code like below to... Continue Reading →
This months TSQL Tuesday is hosted by Shane O'Neill (Blog | Twitter) Shane explains the Topic as: Dipping into the Cookie Jar is about when the going gets tough and you don’t think you can handle anymore, then you think back about your accomplishments and take some sustenance from them. Cookie One: is remembering... Continue Reading →
Post Updated: Replaced Query 3 with transactions/sec query. When we first published 7 ways to Query Always On Availability Groups using SQL we had no idea it would so popular! So here is a quick post with 7 more ways to query Always on availability groups using TSQL, its always handy to have a few little... Continue Reading →
Unfortunately we discovered a small bug in 1.3, the Database ownership module default warning level was not showing a yellow advisory condition when using the Inspector default warning level (NULL), we have now updated Git with the latest revision. If you would rather not re install 1.3 again you can workaround the issue by running... Continue Reading →
Inspector V1.3 is now available on GitHub. We have updated the sample report for you to play with which includes the new informational section added in this build. We updated our getting started guide. We know some of you really hate linked servers so we have been working on a powershell collection which will allow... Continue Reading →
For some reason I have always written my Case statements using the following logic: It wasn't until recently that I noticed that there is another syntax that can be used with the CASE expression, the interesting part about this other form is that it is rather aesthetically pleasing when dealing with multiple WHEN clauses... Continue Reading →
One of the common goto methods for query specific slowness which can be replicated via an application can be to start up a trace or extended events session whilst replicating the issue, we all know about the dangers of running these sessions without sufficient filtering so ensuring that correct filtering is applied and sessions are... Continue Reading →
It has been long overdue but finally V1.2 is now available on GitHub. V1.2 brings a lot of changes, We put together a sample report for you to play with but here is an overview of what has been added. Enhancements: #9 Long running transactions module added - A new setting has been added to [Inspector].[Settings]. This setting... Continue Reading →
Pre-requisites: SQL 2012 or higher SQL Server Agent A database to store the the data collected by the agent jobs (this can be one you use for your other DBA needs it doesn’t have to be a dedicated database) Optional: For instances with availability groups where you take backups on the secondary replicas you will... Continue Reading →
I recently came across a really odd issue with the SQL Agent, there were two agent jobs attached to one schedule one of the jobs was enabled and the other was not enabled - all pretty normal at this point but here is where it got weird. The disabled job was running on schedule regardless!... Continue Reading →
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