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  • DBA Scripts: Get Error Log Patterns

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting Group the Error Log Instead of Scrolling It The SQL Server error log is where the instance tells you what’s wrong, but on a busy server it’s also where hundreds of routine startup, backup, and checkpoint messages bury the handful…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get Edition Feature Usage

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory What Actually Breaks If You Downgrade This Instance Edition downgrades, Enterprise to Standard, Standard to Web, look simple until you discover a feature that only Enterprise supports has quietly been in use the whole time. TDE-encrypted databases…

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  • DBA Scripts: Maintenance and Automation

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. Is the Automation Healthy, and Is It Actually Doing the Job A SQL Agent job that silently stopped running is one of the quietest failure modes in SQL Server, nothing errors, nothing alerts, the work it used to do just stops happening until…

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  • DBA Scripts: Performance and Troubleshooting

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. Something is slow · the investigation You are past the point of guessing. This pillar is the middle step: turning “it feels slow” into a named, evidenced cause before you change anything. Look up the wait type Pick a diagnostic scriptYou are here…

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  • DBA Scripts: Server and Configuration

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. What This Server Is, and How It Got That Way Both pillars here answer one underlying question: before performance, before security, before anything else, what is this SQL Server instance, and how did it come to be configured the way it is. Server…

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  • DBA Scripts: Collectors and Baseline Infrastructure

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation From “Check When Asked” to “Already Watching” Every other pillar on this site answers a question the moment you ask it: what’s blocking right now, what are the current wait stats, how much free space is on disk today. The…

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  • DBA Scripts: Generate Collector Alerts

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Collectors & Baselines Alert on What Your Collectors Find Your collectors fill tables every few minutes and nobody reads them. Generate-CollectorAlertJob.sql writes one SQL Agent job that checks the latest collector data every 30 minutes, lists every CRITICAL and…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get Patch Level

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration › Server Inventory Building a Patch Compliance Inventory Across an Estate Version and Edition answers “what is this one instance running” as a quick single-server snapshot. This script answers a related but different question: run it across every server you…

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  • DBA Scripts: Collect Health and Configuration Baselines

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Collectors & Baselines Four Collectors, Four Different Rhythms AG health every few minutes if you’re running Availability Groups, index fragmentation weekly, Query Store’s top queries every 30 minutes, error log entries every 10. Each script below is a generator:…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get Transaction Log Size and Usage

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity Full Log Versus Big Log A transaction log that fills stops every write in the database with error 9002, and disk monitoring will not warn you first, because a log can fill up inside a file that never grew. A…

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