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I’m writing a Operational DBA job description – for an internal vacancy. The main requirements are listed below. Without getting into the specifics of the organisation – there is: 1 Database Architect\Senior DBA, 1 DBA and 1 Data Architect in a Enterprise Production environment su......
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When you plan for TempDB configuration note the TempDB purpose.
User objects e.g tables, indices, table variables. Scope (user session or routine)
Internal objects. e.g join work files Scope (statement)
Version Stores to support row versioning
Some of the features using the TempDB are:
Cursor......
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The online definition is “An error occurred while accessing TSM during the processing of a database utility”.
The 610 code means the message catalog aka dscenu.txt can’t be found.
I see this error usually when a DBA configures TSM at the DB2 instance level.
When you configure......
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I received a phone call from the ETL manager - with the following message in the SQL Server Logs.
SSPI handshake failed with error code 0x80090304 while establishing a connection with integrated security; the connection has been closed. [CLIENT: 10.111.111.21]
The causes I’ve seen in the pa......
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What if you had to create a script stack that installs SQL Server from an image library? And customisations – such as adding the SQL Server Start up account to the Lock Pages in Memory Local Policies?
If this needs to be rolled out quickly across hundreds of servers, or just one, then there ......
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This morning I found this error message in the TSM schedule logs
ANS1315W (RC15) Unexpected retry request. The server found an error while writing the data.
Preceded by
Waiting for TSM server
The conclusion was there were insufficient mount points or scratch tapes were not available
I......
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Granting execute rights to all stored procedures used to be a cumbersome problem up to before SQL Server 2005. You either had to give elevated rights to the user or run a script to GRANT EXECUTE on every stored procedure.
I still see plenty of databases where a DBA has granted db_owner rights, sim......
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This useful DMV Sys.dm_os_memory_clerks produces a recordset of SQL Server memory clerks currently active. Being aware of memory pressure is critical to managing SQL Server performance. I use this DMV as part of a suite of queries which track external memory pressure and VAS pressure e.g caused by O......
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OK, a member of the application team rushes towards me and says “the database server is slow due to blocking” or “everything has gone really slow” etc. As a DBA ,I’m quite often beset upon by application owners – and answers are needed quickly.
One tool at my di......
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It is important to differentiate between Waits and Queues, when applying the Waits and Queues performance analysis methodology. Even though they are two sides of the same problem, they are approaching resource usage in a different manner.
Waits, refers to any time spent waiting on resources by any......
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