Tag Archives: administration

Tracking Logins with Extended Events

Posted on December 16, 2015 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers. I was building a question the other day on Extended Events and needed to build a new session. One of … Continue reading →

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The Writeable Warm Standby

Posted on December 14, 2015 by way0utwest

I saw a question recently that went like this: I get one full backup from FTP. I’ll get daily log backups through FTP after this, but never another full. I need to restore this daily log backup and allow the … Continue reading →

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Virtual Failback

Posted on November 3, 2015 by way0utwest

I saw a very interesting tweet from Scott Stauffer asking this: “… looking for quick’n’easy way to make workload virtual w/ fail-fast method to physical if performance doesn’t meet expectation.” This was part of a conversation Scott was having in looking to … Continue reading →

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Learn to Use Filegroups

Posted on October 13, 2015 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on May 12, 2011. It is being re-run as Steve is away at SQL Relay today. In SQL Server, filegroups are a management technique that I don’t see many people using. It’s amazing how many … Continue reading →

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