As a Proactive DBA, you must monitor All SQL Server errors having severity level between 17 to 25. Any errors from level 20 to 25 are serious in nature however for 17 to 19 a DBA involvement is required for resolution. Here is self explanatory MS description of error levels, steps to get automatic alert [...]
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SQL Server Query for Capacity Planning – SQL 2005 & 2008
Posted: 26th December 2010 by Deepak in Scripts, SQL BI/DW/SSRS, SQL DBA, SQL Dev, UncategorizedTags: capacity planning, database, database details, database information, database planning, database size, db structure, growth, space, sql build, trend
As a proactive DBA its one of responsibility to keep an eye on database’s growth and other file system changes for the databases hosted on SQL instance. However being busy on daily DBA tasks, its not always possible to prepare scripts or manually extract data from system for documentations & trend reporting purposes. I faced [...]
What you ‘Currently’ don’t get with SQL Azure?
Posted: 21st December 2010 by Deepak in SQL DBA, UncategorizedTags: cloud, database, sql azure, sql business, sql cloud, sql dba, sql server, sql web
SQL Azure is cloud based relational database platform built on SQL Server technology; it allows storing structured, semi-structured and unstructured data over the cloud. Behind the scene databases are hosted on cluster SQL servers, and are load balanced plus replicated for scalability & high availability purposes. Each logical Server consists of one master and N [...]
Script to find used and free space in Database files
Posted: 2nd August 2010 by Deepak in Scripts, SQL BI/DW/SSRS, SQL DBA, SQL Dev, UncategorizedTags: database, db size, dbcc, dbcc showfilestats, dbcc sqlperf, disk, logspace, shrink, shrinkfile, space, sql server
In an Enterprise world, you may be responsible to monitor 1000+ databases hosted on hundreds of SQL Server instances. On a lazy afternoon, suddenly low disk space alarm hit your inbox. What will you do, storage can not be added or expended on the fly. Here is the tested script to find used and free [...]
