In order to understand how page/extent allocation works with in SQL Server for entities (objects) I was reading Paul Randal’s (B|T) blog. While reading different articles I thought of summarizing few critical information into a table. Which will help me consuming the information better and review easily when I need to. With Paul’s written consent […]
DBA team that I worked with manage 170+ SQL Servers. We do not enable notification on any SQL Agent job. We centrally monitor all jobs and send a notification based on the tier (Business-critical). Last night on-call DBA got paged for a job failed in the server we are doing proof of concept. By looking […]
Often times DBA’s (including myself at the beginning of my DBA career) struggle to find out what is causing the log files to grow. Or what is consuming all the space in my log files. I understand there are many factors that can impact the log file size besides all the active transactions. Such as: […]
Recently in one of our server row count in MSDB.DBO.SysJobHistory table exceeded 100 Million and looking at job history was slow via SSMS. It was impossible via the GUI. Because we had about 50 jobs that were running frequently (called from a listener mostly once in every 2 to 3 minutes). I was curious if […]
Recently at my work due to low free space on a disk, I was forced to rebuild a few indexes on a different filegroup (which resides on a different disk). I wanted to list all user objects belonging to a single file group including size. I did not find a query online with everything I […]
