About Availability Groups Database Seeding
This post will serve to describe all things regarding adding databases and trouble-shooting issues with Availability Groups Availability Group Direct Seeding: How to…
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About Collations in SQL Server
This post will be fore the purpose of documenting all my findings regarding Collations in SQL Server, including changing the collation on an…
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PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server Notes
This blog will be where I post my PostgreSQL administration learning and it’s comparison to SQL Server from a SQL Server DBA’s viewpoint.…
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Availability Groups: Things to remember
Here are a few things to remember when working with Availability Groups: Backup and Restore NOTE: Using the Recovery Advisor GUI in SSMS…
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Properly Taking a Cluster Offline for Disk Maintenance
I recently needed to replace the older, slower attached disks on our clustered SQL instance offline so as to copy each drive to…
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Building an AlwaysOn Availability Group SQL Cluster
Here are the steps to build at SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn Availability Group. We will be using Windows 2016 Standard 64-bit for the…
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Random SQL tips and best practices
Kevin Kline posted on wait states here with some valuable insight: TROUBLESHOOTING SQL SERVER WAIT STATS A number of these are from Adam…
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What is a .TUF file in the DATA folder?
The TUF files you see in the ..\DATA folder is a “transaction undo file” which contains modifications to the database that were not…
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Bulk-copy SQL Server Agent jobs to new server
The easiest way to bulk-copy all SQL Agent jobs to a new server is to follow these steps 1. Load SSMS and connect…
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Configuring SQL Database Mail
Here is a sample script for configuring database mail in the event you want to automate your SQL installs.
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EXEC sys.sp_configure 'Advanced options', 1; RECONFIGURE EXEC sys.sp_configure; USE msdb GO --Step1: Varifying the new profile SELECT * FROM sysmail_profile --Step2: Verifying accounts SELECT * FROM sysmail_account --Step3: To check the accounts of a profile SELECT * FROM sysmail_profileaccount WHERE profile_id = 3 --Step4: To display mail server details SELECT * FROM sysmail_server select * FROM sysmail_allitems |
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