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Lone DBA, Lemming or Master of your Domain
Are you a lone lemming or the master of your domain?Many organizations hire only one database administrator. This lone DBA is in a unique position which can be both rewarding and challenging. I have...
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Moving Your SQL Infrastructure to Microsoft Azure
Just Another Big Business (JABB) Systems International is a fictional, 2,400-employee business with global offices. It manufactures security equipment, such as surveillance systems, alarms, bulletproof...
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Assigned reading: FREEPROCCACHE
I don’t often find myself blogging for the sole purpose of showing you someone else’s blog, but today is one of those days. I’d like you to read Grant Fritchey’s excellent piece, “Targeted Plan Cache...
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The 30 minute rule
In one of my first IT jobs (back in the dark ages) we had something called the thirty minute rule. Kind of catchy right? But what did it mean? Simply said, if you have made no progress on a problem for...
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How To Optimise The Performance Of MDX Queries That Return Thousands Of Rows
One problem I encounter on a regular basis is how to optimise the performance of MDX queries that return thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of rows. The advice I give is always the...
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Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It’s not relational and often brings nightmares of parsing and performance...
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Agile Development – A DBA’s Initial Thoughts
I recently had the opportunity to attend a three day Agile development workshop. At a very high level, Agile development values making small, iterative changes over short periods of time, unlike...
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The Problem With AshleyMadison - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is the real problem with the AshleyMadison data breach? Well, let...The post The Problem With AshleyMadison appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
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Connecting To SQL Server Running On An Azure VM
If you have setup a Windows Azure Virtual Machine running SQL Server you may have noticed that you might not be able to connect to the SQL Server running on the machine by using SQL Server Management...
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Use FILEPROPERTY to find free space in all the database
The use of SpaceUsed property of the FILEPROPERTY function gives how much space is used also we can derive lot of other attributes of it such as free space and percentage of free space.For other...
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SQLSat403 – Recap
The doors close, lights turn off, and cars begin to pull out of the parking lot. Another SQL Saturday event has come and gone, but this time it was different. The reason for this was from the hard...
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Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Simple Visualization
This is the third installment of our Getting Started With Power BI Desktop series. The first post is about installation and the second is about getting data. In this post, let’s see how easy it is to...
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I am not a “wogrammer”
So apparently the COO of Facebook is trying to make the word “wogrammer” – a woman programmer – a thing. (Thanks to Vicky Harp for pointing out this infuriating thing.) I cannot stress how...
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017 – Thinking Like A Manager - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 2 minutesThinking Like A Manager In WOxPod!, episode # 017 – “Thinking Like...The post 017 – Thinking Like A Manager appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
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Event Notification para kill
Algum tempo atras fiz um post sobre Event Notification para monitorar DeadLock o que funciona muito bem,,,Com um pouco de modificação o mesmo código pode ser utilizado para muitas outras coisas,,, por...
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The default instance has a name
The default instance actually has an instance name. It’s MSSQLSERVER. This is probably familiar to a lot of you but hold on because I’m going to go a little bit deeper. When we connect to a default...
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Avoid Frequent use of TVPs With Wide Rows
Tackling A Hairy Problem This series includes a number of stand-alone posts which can fit together to tell a bigger story Part One: Types of Performance MetricsPart Two: What’s Going On Inside...
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Server Info
Following my last post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the PowerShell scripts which I use to populate my database. They are the secondary part to my...
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Time for T-SQL Tuesday #70!
Here is your invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #70, and the topic is: Strategies for managing an enterprise We define “enterprise” in a number of ways, but I tend to default to two definitions: “the things...
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Shredding Extended Event Actions
The other day I wrote about that torrid love/hate relationship DBAs tend to have with working with XML. In that same post, I promised I would have a follow up post about XML in Extended Events.Well,...
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