Author: nigelDBA

Troubleshooting additional SQL Server Components

Troubleshooting additional SQL Server Components

Today, I am introducing a series of articles on troubleshooting various components of SQL Server.   My experience has been largely with the SQL Engine (“proper” SQL Server), but there are so many additional products that have become part of SQL Server. They are available under the same licence and unfortunately, the expectation is that…

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T-SQL Tuesday #131: An Analogy

T-SQL Tuesday #131: An Analogy

This month, the T-SQL Tuesday invitation is from Rob Volk. Rob has asked for an Analogy that you use to describe concepts. This works well for me as I use analogies a lot, today I’ve gone with… “I drive the truck” I once put together a presentation on the subject of “what is a DBA”.…

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Query Plan says “Just do nothing”

Query Plan says “Just do nothing”

How many times do you ask someone to do something and get the response “I’m not doing that – there’s no point”. Turns out SQL Server does that sometimes too – as I was reminded recently.   After spending time examining query plans using SentryOne Plan Explorer, I was faced with the following improbable Plan…

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DataRelay 2019

DataRelay 2019

I had a great time on Friday at Data Relay in Bristol. This article is about what I learned. I have tried to include links, either to presentations, slides or just example of the speakers previous work. I will update with further links as and when I get them. Data Relay (formerly known as SQL…

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Azure Learning and my Learnings

Azure Learning and my Learnings

It’s no secret that I’m keen to investigate new technologies. While my job is almost completely related to “on premises” versions of SQL Server, I’m hugely interested in what the future brings. Learning about new technologies can be difficult without a project in mind or specific manufacturer training. Trawling through Youtube for training can be…

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Looking out for… Parallelism

Looking out for… Parallelism

While closely monitoring a query that I was running, I observed some strange behaviour by another query. This other query quickly beat mine in terms of Pages read, which is fine, no competition. It went on to exceed it 4 x. The thing that stuck out was the “Degree of Parallelism” that it used –…

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Options for deleting large amounts of data

Options for deleting large amounts of data

Recently, I had a situation where a lot of data needed to be deleted. This was caused by a Monitoring system which was incorrectly configured. When Monitoring, you should Monitor just the information that you need, but no more. In this case, far too much information was being monitored and recorded, causing the Database that…

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