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SQL Server system_health Session Retention

March 3, 2017

As per Microsoft’s books online The system_health session is an Extended Events session that is included by default with SQL Server. This session starts automatically when the SQL Server Database Engine starts, and runs without any noticeable performance effects. The session collects system data that you can use to help troubleshoot performance issues in the […]

SQL Server Fullscan Statistics Being Overwritten with Sample Statistics

March 3, 2017

I observed this behavior only in the following version of SQL Server while using Always On Availability Group feature. Version: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP3) (KB3072779) – 11.0.6020.0 (X64) Oct 20 2015 15:36:27 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.3 (Build 9600: ) In this article by David Barbarin […]

How to migrate a SQL database to Microsoft Azure SQL V12

March 2, 2017

This is a session about migrating on premise SQL database to Microsoft Azure SQL V12. I present the session to following user groups. North Boston Azure Cloud User Group on February 28, 2017. Capital Area SQL Server User Group, Albany, NY on May 9, 2017. Pass DBA Virtual Chapter on April 12, 2017 SQL Saturday […]

TSQL Tuesday #79 -JSON Support in SQL 2016

June 14, 2016

I thank Michael J Swart (b|t) for hosting TSQL Tuesday #79. Topic for this month is to write about SQL Server 2016. This is my first time joining in TSQL Tuesday and I am excited about it. In my workplace, we use MongoDB besides SQL Server. MongoDB saves documents in the binary form of  JSON […]

Schedule SQL Agent Job With Availability Group

January 28, 2016

There was a tweet that came last night from Lohit about “need guidance on how to enable a set of jobs on secondary AG as soon as failover happens from primary to secondary AG”.  I have implemented a solution for most (I am using “most”  literally because I have not done this for all jobs) of […]



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