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  1. SQLAuthority News – Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.2

    This download package is intended for Microsoft Premier Customers Only. This package includes all of the scoping tools necessary to prepare and qualify your environment to receive a Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server. Download Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool ...

  2. Documenting servers

    I'm starting to create a Run Book (not my term, but I don't remember where I heard it) to store all documents relating to the databases and their servers I'm responsible for. That list is growing, and before it gets out of hand I'd like to create a template of ...

  3. Fun With Percentiles, Part 2

    In Part 1, we talked about how to calculate a value V for a given percentile p in a given set of numbers. We looked at the mathematical formula that Excel uses for its PERCENTILE() function and then put together some T-SQL scripts that used those formulas.In this blog ...

  4. BINGO!!!

    Let’s talk about Alerting. Alerting is like a nice fun game of BINGO.  When a new ball is pulled and the announcer yells out “Under the B… 6″ if everyone stood up at the same time and yelled “NO BINGO” and the one person who needed B6 yells out ...

  5. Non-Unique, Non-Consistent Data Returns From sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats

    I’ve run across an interesting (and by interesting I mean annoying) issue as of late with persisting data from the sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats.  This DMF (Dynamic Management Function) returns information concerning how existing indexes are being utilized by the SQL Server 2005 and newer instance.  It contains granular I/O ...

  6. MidnightDBA feels pretty! Oh so pretty!

    So you may have noticed that MidnightDBA looks a bit different.  Quite a bit prettier, and a little big uglier.  This week we pushed our upgrade...tah-dah!!  The site is still a little rough, and we'll be putting in big work this weekend.  BUT, the new site features some ...

  7. Running a Server Side Trace

    This is part two of three part series on creating, running, and scheduling Server Side Traces in SQL Server. Part I, Scripting Server Side Traces, was posted on August 31, 2009. Part III will be posted soon. SQL Server Profiler can bring your production server to a screeching halt In ...

  8. Automating DBA Tasks

    A member of my user group recently asked me about the best practices for monitoring and automating database maintenance. Automate Everything If I do something once, I automate it. I learned this valuable lesson at last year’s PASS Summit during a panel discussion. Any time I find an error ...

  9. Dear Vendor

    A lot of application vendors try to do things that will make managing their application easier for customers who lack an IT staff. I seriously doubt they make it that much easier. Unfortunately, there is something called unintended consequences, and they frequently make their applications harder for those of us ...

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