SQL Server

Get SQL Server database size with PowerShell

Introduction For various reasons, following the evolution of the data size of databases is interesting for a dba or for the application team. Most of the time, this is something built-in for monitoring tools – convenient to follow the(…)

First look at SQL Server 2022 Contained Availability Groups

Introduction SQL Server 2022 introduces the new concept of Contained Availability Groups. This is something that DBAs have been waiting for since Availability Groups were introduced 10 years ago. Contained Availability Groups enhance the Availability groups by(…)

SQL Server 2022 Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization

Introduction The Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) feature family is extended with SQL Server 2022.One of the most anticipated features is the Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization. I started to test this new feature. In this post, you will(…)

SQL Server 2022 public preview available

This is a small blog post to share that the SQL Server 2022 public preview is available for download. The Microsoft announcement blog post and a summary of the new feature are available here : Announcing(…)

SQL Server: Is Fill Factor applied during INSERT?

The Fill factor setting controls the amount of space that is left available on the index data pages. The goal is to allow new rows to be inserted or existing ones to change size (UPDATE)  without resulting in(…)

SQL Server: table variables performance limitations

Doing some performance troubleshooting for one of my customers I identified some issues with very large table variables inside Stored procedures. Table variables limitations are not well understood by developers although they are now well documented. Table variable(…)

Virtual Symposium SQL Server & Azure SQL – Session: Debugging without debugger

As a consultant at dbi services we can dedicate a significant part of our time to training and I took the opportunity today to attend an online conference. In this blog post, I will present this event and(…)

SQL Server CPU limitation for Express and Standard Edition

Introduction When performing an audit on an SQL Server VM the first thing the system administrator told me was that there’s no issue with the CPU on this box, the monitoring shows it’s always around 50% usage. Problem Here is(…)

SQL Server: Get email notifications for Error Log entries

Introduction In a previous blog post, I did a T-SQL script reading Audit files to send emails with valuable information about instance changes. In this one, you will see how to get nice emails from critical errors or(…)

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(…)