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While working as a DBA or developer, there might be some cases that you need to keep a very limited number of records in a large table and remove the remaining records (for example, you may wish to keep 1000 records in a table containing…

Introduction As you know, transactions are units of work which performed against a database. SQL Server makes uses of this concept for Consistency and Durability of data in a system. Due to Atomicity feature, transaction or all the…

Adds a log file to a file group when recovery cannot complete on a database due to insufficient log space (error 9002). After the file is added, sp_add_log_file_recover_suspect_db turns off the suspect setting and completes the recovery of…

Adds a data file to a filegroup when recovery cannot complete on a database due to insufficient space on the file group (error 1105). After the file is added, this stored procedure turns off the suspect setting and completes the recovery of…

Query Store notice If you use the Query Store feature, and you have previously installed Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) (14.0.3008.27), the following requirement applies to you: After you install Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) (14.0.3015.40) or a…

SQL Server 2019 package native to Ubuntu 18.04 ecosystem, fully supported for production use, starting with CU3.…

SQL Server Resource Governor is a feature than you can use to manage SQL Server workload and system resource consumption. Resource Governor enables you to specify limits on the amount of CPU, physical IO, and memory that incoming…

sys.dm_db_persisted_sku_features : dynamic management view to list edition-specific features that are enabled in the current database. If no features that may be restricted by a specific edition are used by the database, the view…

sys.dm_db_log_space_usage Returns space usage information for the transaction log. Column name Data type Description database_id smallint Database ID. total_log_size_in_bytes bigint The size of the log…

Installing Oracle 11g 32bit & 64bit clients would be a resolution of the famous 64bit OraOLEDB issue. Accessing an Oracle DB over a 64 bit system was a pain for many SQL Server DBAs. The purpose of this document is to explain how to…