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I am really big on using a couple of methods to scan every server in my environment with a huge array of queries. Why? because There’s the classic purposes to doing this. How do I do it? I have two Read More …

When you build a plain old Vanilla Windows Machine supporting a SQL Server instance, what does your run book look like? My run book is an excel spreadsheet with lots of formulas that update or make visible items based on Read More …

Have you ever had that rare situation where you need log shipping to another server, but have zero access to the primary server? I encountered that issue recently and my solution was two parts. A Secondary Log Shipping Target without Read More …

Code Performance improvements are a layered approach. I think of it as multiple passes and focii to Statistics. slightly out of date stats on huge tables can greatly affect performance. Index Optimization: Review missing indexes, remove unused indexes. Data Management Read More …

Hi I am Lowell Izaguirre, and I’ve am a cutting edge Senior Database Administrator for SQL Server. I’ve got the paper pedigree for those who care, two MCSA’s and an MCSE as well, but the key is my experience, deep Read More …

Tripped over a great example yesterday, where an application was recently upgraded, and ran out of temp db space for the tables, and not the log. The TLDR was that an inefficient query was sticking 500MB of data into a Read More …

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