It never fails. You work on something, be it a painting, a story, or even a SQL script, and tweak it until you’ve got it just right and, finally, after all your hard work, you publish it. Then you immediately find something you want to change. Guess what? The very day my updated data compression […]
It’s been about a year and a half since I last posted an update to my script that scans databases for objects to compress and, optionally, compresses them. This time around, I’ve just incorporated a bug fix and added a check to make sure the script is running on an edition of SQL Server that […]
It’s been quite a while since I last took a look at my script to monitor for endless index defragmenting by Ola Hallengren’s index maintenance scripts. Before running this version, I suggest you read my first two posts about this process, including a very important caveat about the need to coordinate the frequency of running […]
Most of the scheduled jobs on my SQL Servers write some sort of output to a log file. Most of the time, it’s just the output of a SQL statement. However, for some of my longer, more complicated routines, the procedures I write include PRINT statements to output various statuses or progress messages while the […]
I was recently doing some work with a backup verification routine that is meant to run on various versions of SQL Server and came across some variations in the way the RESTORE VERIFYONLY command is reported by sys.dm_exec_requests between SQL Server 2005, 2008 R2, and 2012. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere, so I thought […]