Querying Maintenance Plans
Lots of DBA’s use the built in maintenance plans to set up backups and other database maintenance. SQL Server, through SSMS provides the user with a drag and drop experience to create some pretty...
View ArticlePASS Summit Learning–AlwaysOn AG and Replication
One of the best sessions I attended at the PASS Summit 2012 was high availability options for your replication environment by Jean-Yves Devant, Program Manager over Replication and CDC/CT at Microsoft....
View ArticleFind SQL Server Installed Features
Often times we take over a server with an existing SQL Server installation on it and we are often tasked with the question “What all is installed?”Luckily for us the setup program has a discovery...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to run Queries Against Central Management Server
I had a need recently to run a script on 50 different servers, same database schema, but different database names. My first thought of just registering all the servers into Central Management Server...
View ArticleIn-Place Upgrade of SQL Server with Read Only databases
When performing an upgrade of SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012, there is a bug which will cause Read Only databases to come online in “Pending Recovery” mode. The premise behind this is that when...
View ArticleSQL Server
SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications.
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