Category: Monitoring
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Counters for Monitoring SQL Server Performance
Below are the top few counters which we need to monitor to know SQL Server performance. On the basis of optimal values of the counters, we can identify performance of SQL Server… They are… 1. SQLServer: Buffer Manager: Buffer Cache hit ratio 2. SQLServer: Buffer Manager: Page life expectancy 3. SQLServer: SQL Statistics: Batch Requests/Sec…
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Managing Database Transaction Log File
Hey guys, In this blog I am going to explain you about “How to manage Database Transaction Log File” This is the very common task which any DBA does regularly. Reason behind doing Transaction-Log file shrink… 1. Some time because of low disk space on T-log disk.2. Log-backup job issue. Sometime what happen because of log backup…
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SQL Server VSS Writer Service
Microsoft built the capability into windows allowing files to be backed up to disk while other programs are using those files. The VSS Servicer interacts with the Windows Volume Shadow Copy service (VSS), allowing files that are in use, such as SQL Server data files, to be copied (or backed up) without stopping all other…
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Data Page and Transaction Log Page
Hey guys, In this blog I am going to explain you about Data Page and Transaction Log Page. Data page- In SQL Server, the page serves as the basic unit of data storage. A collection of eight physically connected pages is referred to as an extent. Extents aid in effective page management. In all SQL…
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SQL Server Memory Architecture
There are four major components of SQL memory architecture… 1. Memory Broker2. Memory Object3. Memory Clerk4. Memory Node In short, BOCN. (For remember it “Boy Of Cartoon-Network”) 1. Memory Broker Purpose of Memory Broker is to provide a centralized mechanism to distribute/control memory the allocation made by each component in SQL Server. Note: Memory brokers do…
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Mirroring Witness getting disappear from Mirroring Setup…
Recently we have faced one issue where DB mirroring witness getting disappear from mirroring setup. This is happening once Principal get down or SQL services restarts. In the case, we found DB fail-over is also is not working. Once the Principal server come online the DB start serving role as Principal DB and get in…
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Dive into Buffer pool extension
The Buffer pool extension feature started from SQL server 2014. This is a nice addon to SQL server to extend the memory paging to SSD. This is not an enterprise only feature, this can be enabled on standard edition. The database size has grown huge now the Db’s having size more than 1 TB is…
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Let’s talk about In memory OLTP
In-memory OLTP frequently referred to by its code name “Hekaton”, was introduced in SQL Server 2014 but it got more popular from SQL Server 2016. This feature was being developed by Microsoft to stay in the game for high speed OLTP transaction speed and recent hardware changes in terms of the cost and throughput. Many…
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Important SQL Server Scripts…
Restore Progress Check… ========================================================================== DECLARE @DBName VARCHAR(64) = ‘ODS’ DECLARE @ErrorLog AS TABLE([LogDate] CHAR(24), [ProcessInfo] VARCHAR(64), [TEXT] VARCHAR(MAX)) INSERT INTO @ErrorLog EXEC master..sp_readerrorlog 0, 1, ‘Recovery of database’, @DBName INSERT INTO @ErrorLog EXEC master..sp_readerrorlog 0, 1, ‘Recovery completed’, @DBName SELECT TOP 1 @DBName AS [DBName] ,[LogDate] ,CASE WHEN…
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Database Maintenance Plan
Hii guys, I hope you are doing great, today here I am going to explain you about the Database Maintenance Plan. Database Maintenance Plan- A database maintenance plan is a set of specific, proactive tasks that need to be performed regularly on databases to ensure their adequate performance and availability. Uses of Maintenance plan– The…
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New features of SQL Server 2022
Hello guys, hope you are doing well. In this blog I’m going to discuss about the “New features of SQL Server 2022” The release of the SQL Server 2022 is much anticipated by the audience since the announcement of it being in the works on November 2nd, 2021. Although the complete details of this brand-new version will…
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