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23 June 2008 09:19

Performance Dashboard for SQL 2008

Just in case you haven't seen this http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/thepremiers/archive/2008/06/20/sql-server-2008-performance-studio.aspx then have a read. As I actually create dashboards and performance reporting for sql 2000 and sql 2008, and have...
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19 March 2008 19:17

Bug in UK SSUG 2008

It was discovered earlier today that SSUG 2008 was unable to distinguish a Thursday when it fell before a bank holiday friday and as a consequence SSUG would be unable to function on March 20th. It's not thought that other Thursdays that fall before a...
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12 February 2008 21:20

Custom Reports for the DBA without SSRS

Creating Custom Reports for the DBA ( You can find this and other information at http://www.grumpyolddba.co.uk/ ) 1. You don’t need SQL Server Reporting Services to do this 2. You don’t need IIS installed 3. You do need SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2...
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30 January 2008 19:18

Things I learned today

I'm involved with some tuning as usually tends to be the case and amongst the work I've been doing a couple of interesting points arose. Firstly we upgraded the memory in the production cluster, what was unusual for me was that we added more memory than...
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24 January 2008 18:58

Perfmon Counters thresholds

Just in case you missed the link to The Premier's blog http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/thepremiers/archive/2008/01/23/monitoring-sql-server-using-performance-monitor.aspx they've just posted details of a perfmon trace viewer. But what is more important...
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