Last weekend was patch weekend and several of my SQL Server machines got Windows Updates applied and were rebooted. Today, I discovered that on a couple of severs, SQL Agent did was not running. The first thing I did was verify that the service was set to autostart. It was. Hmm. Time to dig into […]
Brent Ozar Unlimited has released a new version of their awesome sp_Blitz server checkup script. I’m pleased to report that this version includes some checks that I submitted: a check for the last successful DBCC CHECKDB, a check to see if @@servername is null, and an update to the backup check to make sure the […]
This is a problem all DBAs will run into at some point – the drive a database’s transaction log is on runs out of space. In most cases, this was caused by the transaction log autogrowing until there is no room left on the drive. If your alerts are set up correctly, you’ll get an […]
Recently, I was going through all my servers and performing some basic health checks. One of these checks was to look for foreign keys and constraints that are not trusted. I figured this would be something of a rare occurrence and was completely surprised when I found out that roughly 75% of my servers had […]
The database design for Dynamics / Great Plains is well known to be incredibly poor. Now I’ve run into another reason why the program sucks. As per best practices, I’ve got alerts set up on all my SQL Servers. One of these alerts is for severity 20 errors. I have a server that is host […]