Database Administration & Monitoring

SQL Server SCOM Alert Analysis: The Average Wait Time of SQL instance “xxx” on computer “xxx” is too high

I have an interested alert on SCOM for SQL Server by a customer two weeks ago. In the SCOM interface, the warning on the server is MSSQL2016: The Average Wait Time of SQL instance “xxx” on computer “xxx” is(…)

See you on Polywork (an new LinkedIn?)

By Franck Pachot . I have published 105 additional blog posts here since the 500th one https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/rollback-to-savepoint/ that I have written on my come back to dbi-services. On Oracle Database, of course, other databases as well,(…)

Recurring PostgreSQL Installations using RHEL 8 and Clones

This Blog is a follow up uf one of my older Blogs and my Article at heise.de: Blog at dbi-services.com Article at heise.de For RHEL 8 at its clones like AlmaLinux, CentOS, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux(…)

SQL Server SCOM: Many perf.perfHourly and State.StateHourly tables in OperationManagerDW

By a customer, the SCOM’s Database OperationManagerDW growth fast and becomes very big. To see what’s happens, in SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), I right-click on the database open Reports>Standard Report> Disk Usage by Top Tables: You have(…)

SQL Server: How to compare Server and Database Collation

Sometimes during an SQL Server audit, I check the collation of the server and the databases but every time separately. The goal of this blog is to give you a script to have both and compare it. First step(…)

SQL Server: Analysis of SCOM Warning on the Health Check

Sometimes, it’s hard to find how to analyze a Warning in the SCOM Interface and correct the problem. By a customer, we install new instances in SQL Server 2019 and change the version of SCOM. All new servers have a(…)

SQL Server Tips: Get back permissions lost for mount points!

Recently by a customer, we are facing the case to lose all mount points on a secondary node in a HA SQL Server AlwaysOn infrastructure due to a big problem on the Datacenter. We need to build from scratch(…)

Patroni on FreeBSD 13?

You can already find several blog posts around PostgreSQL protected by Patroni on our blog. They all have in common, that the setup is on a flavor of Linux. As I got impressed by(…)

Automate restore from Rubrik with PowerShell

One of our customer uses Rubrik as a solution to recover, manage, and secure all their data. In this context, Rubrik is used to backup and restore all the SQL Server instances. We need to run restore tests(…)

Why is the default postgres database slightly larger than template1?

You probably know that a fresh initialized PostgreSQL cluster comes with three databases by default: template0, template1, and postgres. If you want to know why they are there, and what their purpose is, check this post. In(…)