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Recently an upgrade was made to a dedicated SQL Server. They upgraded the RAM of Windows Server 2008 from 24GB to 32GB and from 8 cores to 24 cores. Now before the upgrade was made, we can schedule 10...
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View ArticleData migration from MySQL 5.7 to SQL Sever 2008 R2
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View ArticlePolybase SQL Server 2016
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View ArticleAudit of Grants on objects and database roles
All,As a part of the SOX processes, we have to audit all the permissions that are granted on all databases,database roles & “database objects” at the server level. These permissions are normally...
View Articlereduce transaction log file size (physical level ) - 2014
Hi, My SQL Server 2014, data base "simple recovery mode" log file grown up to 32GB. I need or reduce the size.what is the best practice steps for this. backup is daily full. thanks
View ArticleKeeping free space in Datafile.
Is there any math or general rule that how much free space we need to keep in DATAFILE basing on data growth and database size etc., to avoid performance hiccoughs?
View ArticleScript out a single login including its database user info
Hi,I looked around for a script which can give the CREATE LOGIN .. CREATE USER .. script for a single login. Like you already have a login in sql & just want to script it out, the SSMS, rt click,...
View Articlewhy is sp_rename warning me when I rename tables?
I'm using sp_rename to rename some tables in a production job. I really don't need it to issue warnings every time it's called. Maybe that made some kind of sense in SQL Server version 4.21, but why is...
View Articleupdate getting blocked?
Hi experts,I have a job that most of the times takes seconds, but sometimes takes 40, 50 minutes to run… I am pretty sure is because of a blocking… The code has a couple of selects and then:...
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