Category: Articles
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New DMV’s in SQL Server 2011 aka Denali
Denali CTP3 is already released and we have new DMV’s accompanied with this version which will be very useful for us. I’m going to cover the DMV that are all generic and not to a specific feature of Denali, I’ll will cover those DMV’s while writing article on that feature. There are around 8 DMV’s…
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Steps to configure SQL server Availability Groups in DENALI
In this blog post I will drive you through configurations steps required (with GUI screens) to successfully implement SQL server’s new high availability option called “ALWAYSON” aka HADR . If you haven’t read more about Always ON or Availability groups in SQL server code named “Denali” version, here are some articles that I would recommend…
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Day 14–Trace Flag 3505–Control SQL Server Checkpoint Behavior
What’s is checkpoint? Checkpoint is a process which will write all dirty pages (modified page in buffer cache which is not written to disk) from buffer cache to disk. It helps in recovery time of the database so that when the database start’s up there is no need to do this for all dirty pages,…
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Day 13–Trace Flag 7806–Enable Dedicated Administrator connection in SQL Express edition
Dedicated administrator is one of the new feature introduced from SQL Server 2005. This is a wonderful feature for DBA’s to troubleshoot SQL Server when it goes unresponsive. For more on DAC check the article by Deepak. However this feature is not supported in SQL Express edition by default. So how can I utilize this…
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Day 12–Trace Flag 1222–Capture Deadlock information in XML like format
Yesterday we saw the trace flag 1204 which will give you the information based on nodes. Today we are going to get similar deadlock information using trace flag 1222 in XML like format which means the format does not conform to an XML Schema Definition (XSD) schema. After you enable the trace flag when an…