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 […]
SQL Server Reporting Services provides functionality to automatically generate a report on a recurring basis. These reports can then be emailed or written to a file. The method for doing this is called a subscription. It’s common for a developer to create a report and then create a subscription that sends that report to the […]
With the release of SP2 for SQL 2012, SQL Server Management Studio got a bug fix that results in a nice quality of life improvement. Since the initial release of SQL 2012, plain text in SSMS always showed up in teal, no matter what you set it to via the Tools –> Options –> Environment […]
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DBAs gained the ability to disable indexes in SQL Server 2005. This is a handy little option when you are tuning indexes or consolidating indexes. When you disable an index, you tell SQL Server to basically pretend the index doesn’t exist. Data changes made to the underlying tables are not reflected in the disabled index. […]