When you add a SQL user with the same user ID’s manually on several environments you will see that after a restore this user has no permissions when he tries to acces that database although he seems to be present when you check the SQL properties. The explication is simple, the SID for that user … Continue Reading
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Check SQL running processes
If you want to check the processes running on your SQL server you can find all the info you need in sys.dm_exec_requests. SELECT command, s.text, start_time, percent_complete, CAST(((DATEDIFF(s,start_time,GetDate()))/3600) as varchar) + ‘ hour(s), ‘ + CAST((DATEDIFF(s,start_time,GetDate())%3600)/60 as varchar) + ‘min, ‘ + CAST((DATEDIFF(s,start_time,GetDate())%60) as varchar) + ‘ sec’ as running_time, CAST((estimated_completion_time/3600000) as varchar) + ‘ … Continue Reading
Check SQL last back-date
If you want to check in SQL when your databases was last back-upped (+ the type of back-up), you can execute the script below. this will list you everything of the last 7 days. SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(100), SERVERPROPERTY(’Servername’)) AS Server, msdb.dbo.backupset.database_name, msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_start_date, msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_finish_date, msdb.dbo.backupset.expiration_date, CASE msdb..backupset.type WHEN ‘D’ THEN ‘Database’ WHEN ‘I’ THEN ‘Differential database’ WHEN … Continue Reading
Check SQL last restore-date
If you want to check in SQL when your databases was last restored, you can execute the script below. SELECT [rs].[destination_database_name] , [rs].[restore_date] , [bs].[backup_start_date] , [bs].[backup_finish_date] , [bs].[database_name] AS [source_database_name] , [bmf].[physical_device_name] AS [backup_file_used_for_restore] FROM msdb..restorehistory rs INNER JOIN msdb..backupset bs ON [rs].[backup_set_id] = [bs].[backup_set_id] INNER JOIN msdb..backupmediafamily bmf ON [bs].[media_set_id] = [bmf].[media_set_id] ORDER … Continue Reading
Monitoring Table Size Growth in SQL Server
During my vacation I came across a older, but interesting article that shows you how you can monitor table size growth in SQL-server. With a bit of creativity you can create interesting report based on this information or you can just use the examples on the second page.
Edit Top 200 Rows
When you select/edit records in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (right click on a table), by default you can only edit the top 200 / select the top 1000 rows. You can easily change this parameter by going to Tools -> Options -> SQL Server Object Explorer and modifying the value of the appropriate property … Continue Reading
SQL Server Activity Monitor
I know there are much more fancy tools you can buy on the market than the standaard build-in Activity Monitor from SQL Server, but is a usefull tool that can help you monitor your Server. You can find it when you right-click on the server instance and then click on Activity Monitor. The 2 grids … Continue Reading
