Back in my day, we stored SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages in msdb, or the file system. Well, I’m neither dead nor retired, so that’s not an accurate statement–today is still “my time.” But when I was learning about SQL Server, those were the … [Read More]
Microsoft docs defines the dbcreator role as: Members of the dbcreator fixed server role can create, alter, drop, and restore any database. But what specific permissions are actually included in that role? If we scroll down in the docs just a little, we’ll see a … [Read More]
Last week, I wrote about the SQL Server Version Store. The week before, I looked at crash recovery. Let’s look next at a new feature in SQL Server 2019, where these two features intersect: Accelerated Database Recovery. What is it? Accelerated Database Recovery(ADR) is a … [Read More]
Maybe you’ve read about the Read Committed Snapshot (RCSI) or Snapshot Isolation levels. Or maybe you were trying to figure out the difference between the two snapshot isolation levels. Perhaps you’ve looked into read-only secondary replicas in your Availability Group, or even had some problems … [Read More]
If you’ve ever had a server reboot unexpectedly, you’ve probably seen SQL Server start up, with some databases “stuck” in recovery status, then eventually they come online. Or maybe you thought “this session is stuck in rollback. It’ll be quicker if I just reboot the … [Read More]
There’s a lot of discussion about preventing downtime. As a DBA and IT professional, it’s my sworn duty to prevent downtime. I usually describe my job as DBA something along the lines of, “to make sure data is always available to the people and applications … [Read More]
No, seriously. What is a DTU? When you’re deploying any application, one of the first questions that comes up is “What will this cost?” Most of us have gone through this sort of exercise for sizing a SQL Server installation at some point, but what if … [Read More]
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