Erin Stellato on CHECKDB From Every Angle: How long will CHECKDB take to run?
Trackback from Erin StellatoDBCC CHECKDB Parallel Checks and SQL Server Edition
View ArticlePaul Randal on CHECKDB From Every Angle: How long will CHECKDB take to run?
Hi Farhan - its mostly C++ with a smattering of C, C#, and assembly.
View ArticlePam Brisjar on CHECKDB From Every Angle: How long will CHECKDB take to run?
Perfect timing for me.I've got a stubborn client and a DB that must be taken offline to be fixed (VLDB with no DR and no maintenance). Hopefully this will convince them.
View ArticleFarhan Soomro on CHECKDB From Every Angle: How long will CHECKDB take to run?
I always wonder what language these DBCC or SQLServer engine are written?Thanks--Farhan Soomro
View ArticleBuffer pool disfavoring
Have you ever wondered why DBCC CHECKDB, for instance, doesn’t flush the buffer pool when it runs on a database that is larger than the memory capacity of the server? There’s cool mechanism that it...
View ArticleChicago IE1 class is sold out, so we added another one!
For those of you who were planning to register for our IE1 Immersion Event (on Internals and Designing for Performance) in Chicago at the end of April, I have bad news and good news… The bad news is...
View ArticleDBCC CHECKDB performance and computed-column indexes
It’s no secret that DBCC CHECKDB has some performance quirks based on the schema of the database being checked and various kinds of corruptions. I was recently doing some scalability testing of DBCC...
View ArticleOur new website and April special offer
Our New Website Late last year we finally decided to make time to revamp our blogs and website, and move onto WordPress. I really wish we’d done it a lot sooner as WordPress is such a joy to work with...
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Time to take a stand
While Kimberly was selecting underwater photos for our new website, she came across this one from our dive trip to the remote NE of Indonesia in January 2012. After several people tried to do an...
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DBCC CHECKDB scalability and performance benchmarking on SSDs
Back in February I ran a bunch of performance tests of DBCC CHECKDB on SSDs, to evaluate the effects of degree-of-parallelism (DOP) and various options and traceflags, and now I’m finally getting...
View ArticleSurvey: what mechanism do you use for regular database maintenance?
I haven’t done any surveys this year and I’d like to get back into doing one every week or so for the next few months. In this survey I’d like to know what mechanism(s) you use to perform your regular...
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Easy automation of SQL Server database maintenance
A while back I kicked off a survey asking what mechanism you use for running your regular SQL Server database maintenance. Here are the results: The “Other” responses were: 7 x “A combination of...
View ArticleChicago classes are all sold out, don’t wait to register for London
As of this afternoon all eight classes we’re doing in Chicago in April/May are sold out – that’s 160 people we’ll be training! The reason for this post is to remind those of you who are planning to...
View ArticleSurvey: what’s the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production?
In this survey I’d like to know what the oldest version of SQL Server is in your environment – it has to be an instance that’s being used for a production workload in some way (even just occasionally)....
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More businesses than you think are still using SQL Server 2000
Last week I kicked off a survey asking what is the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production. Here are the results: I’m actually quite surprised. While I expected to see a sizable percentage...
View ArticleSurvey: what’s the newest version of SQL Server that you have in production
In this survey I’d like to know what the newest version of SQL Server is in your environment – it has to be an instance that’s being used for a production workload in some way (rather than just...
View ArticleSQLskills community mentoring – round 4
We’ve had a mentoring program here at SQLskills for a couple of years (the brainchild of Jonathan), where each of us can pick someone who’s attended one of our Immersion Events in the past and offer to...
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More businesses than you think are on the cutting edge
As a counterpart to my recent survey on what the oldest version of SQL Server you have in production (see the results here), I kicked off a survey last week asking what the newest version of SQL Server...
View ArticleSurvey: data files and filegroups per database (code to run)
In this survey I’d like to see what the distribution of the number of data files and filegroups per database is for your servers. Please run the following code (with example output): SELECT COUNT (*)...
View ArticleLast call for London classes until 2015 or 2016
Over the last few months we’ve started thinking about our 2014 and 2015 international class locations. We’ve been in London for the last three years (including this year) but we’re asked for lots of...
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