Category: SQL Server DBA
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Part 1: Create Azure Network and Storage Account
Now that you’ve setup your Azure account we can get started on building the test environment. First thing you should do is to create a Virtual Azure Network, this will be used for connectivity between your servers. Creating a Network is quite straightforward business. Choose Networks and then Create A Virtual Network.
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Building SQL Server test environment on Azure
Going back a few years (and then some), creating your own test environments used to be difficult requiring both time and hardware resources. Then came the different virtualization solutions, which made it bit more easier but still requiring decent amount of hardware resources and a little bit of time. With the arrival of Azure and…
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Few thoughts on Windows Power Options
I ran into and old issue recently I hadn’t seen in a while. A database server was experiencing some intermittent performance issues that didn’t make much sense. It didn’t take me long to figure out what was going on though, after firing up the Resource Monitor.
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Attending PASS Summit 2013
I’ll hit the road and air (can you actually hit the air?) in a couple of days to start my journey towards Charlotte, North Carolina to attend the PASS Summit 2013. This will be my first time in the PASS main event of the year and I am quite excited that I got the company…
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Using Dynamic Management Views and Fuctions.
In my previous post we took a quick look into one of the SQL Server features that I personally consider to be a great boon to any DBA, the Dynamic Management Views and Functions. Im going to show you through some basic examples on how you can use these views to get meaningful information out…
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TCP Chimney Offload and RSS issues with SQL Server.
I was migrating some old databases (I’ll write some more about this later) couple nights back to new database server and while that went mostly alright, things were not looking so good in the morning. I was driving on a highway, taking my daughter to daycare when the phone rang. I did recognize the number…
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Getting familiar with the SQL Servers DMV’s
I’ve been working with SQL Server ever since 1999, back then it was the 6.5 version which was soon replaced by the SQL Server 2000 (we skipped the 7.0 completely). Back in those days getting information out of SQL Server was much, much more difficult and you had way less tools for it. Then came…