Database Administration & Monitoring

SQL Server: How to delete the msdb backup history kindly

This week I noticed some slowness on queries related to backup history. The instance had a huge msdb database (more than 10GB size), the backup history had never been purged. I already wrote a post on this topic and(…)

SQL Server: Replace the old SCOM login by the new one

It’s every time hard to replace a login who as role and permissions in every database like the service account for SCOM. In the previous version of Scom, you create a service account (dbiscom) to access the SQL Server(…)

Ansible Basics Workshop day @dbi services

Today, I follow our Workshop Ansible Basics with Jérôme Witt. Why I follow this workshop? First, it’s to have the basics and Best Practices before begin myself and do “bricolage” by my customers.

SQL Server: Audit changes on Instance Configuration, Linked Servers and Agent Jobs

Introduction Very often with our customers, there is only one person with the DBA role. The configuration of the instances is then under control and if anything strange has to be questioned, the culprit is quickly identified. 🙂 When(…)

SQL Server connectivity issue – troubleshoot TLS configuration

In the blog post, I will share a case of troubleshooting a connectivity issue with SQL Server. The problem occurred in a migration context. The SQL Server databases (in version 2008 to 2014) from multiple applications were consolidated on a(…)

temBoard on SLES15 – 2 – The agent

In the last post we've installed the temBoard repository and the UI. As this alone is not so much fun, we'll be installing the temBoard agent on another SLES 15 machine in this post. We'll end up(…)

Rename your DB clone completely

Introduction Have you ever renamed your database? When you cloned a DB, you probably started it with a new name and cloning (duplicating) with RMAN provided a new DBID, right? So why should we need to rename a(…)

SQL Server – Contained Database

Introduction You may have encounter already case when an application offers the possibility to create and maintain SQL database users and consequently the associated SQL Server instance logins. That’s of course not especially really what a DBA likes, loosing control(…)

temBoard on SLES15 – 1 – The WebUI

During our last SwissPUG online meeting there was a presentation about monitoring PostgreSQL with temBoard. A question that came up afterwards was: How to install that on SLES 15 as there(…)

Clone a Terabyte Database in Seconds

Introduction Have you ever cloned a database using RMAN? Have you ever gotten the advice not to clone during daytime to avoid performance downgrade on the entire storage or network? For a proof of concept, we wanted to(…)