Category: DBA Scripts
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DBA Scripts: Get TempDB Usage and File Balance
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity How Full TempDB Is Right Now, and Whether Its Files Are Set Up Correctly TempDB Configuration and TempDB Hotspots already cover configuration baseline and allocation-contention diagnosis. These two scripts fill the gap between them: Get-TempdbUsage shows exactly how full each…
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DBA Scripts: Get Query Performance Deep-Dive
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Query & Performance Tuning Four Angles on “Why Is This Slow” That Go Beyond Top CPU Top CPU Queries ranks by raw resource consumption. These four scripts answer more specific questions the ranking alone can’t: Get-StoredProcedurePerformance ranks stored procedures…
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DBA Scripts: Get Active Sessions and Requests
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting Who’s Connected, and What’s Actually Running Right Now Worker Threads and Active Sessions gives you the aggregate health number: how close the worker thread pool is to exhaustion. These three scripts give you the per-session detail underneath that number. Get-ActiveSessions…
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DBA Scripts: Get Suspect Pages and Integrity Checks
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Backup & Recovery Corruption Evidence Already Recorded, and a Pre-Check Before You Look Deeper Last DBCC CHECKDB tells you how stale your corruption checks are. These two scripts sit on either side of that: Get-SuspectPages surfaces pages SQL Server has already flagged as…
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DBA Scripts: Security
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. Who Can Do What, What’s Happening, and What’s Missing Security on an inherited SQL Server instance breaks down into four genuinely different questions, and a single “run a security scan” checklist tends to blur them together. Who has privileged access, right now? What’s…
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DBA Scripts: Get Audit Specifications, DDL Triggers, and Proxy Credentials
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security Three Kinds of Infrastructure Most Servers Never Had in the First Place Some security infrastructure isn’t misconfigured, it just doesn’t exist. Get-AuditSpecifications checks for SQL Server Audit, the formal compliance mechanism for SOX/GDPR/PCI-DSS, and most inherited servers have none configured at all.…
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DBA Scripts: Get Certificates, Keys, and TDE Status
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security The Encryption Layer Nobody Monitors Until It Expires Certificates created for TDE, backup encryption, or an Availability Group encrypted endpoint get created once and then quietly forgotten. An expired certificate doesn’t break TDE in memory on the server that has it, but…
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DBA Scripts: Get Login Security Audit
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security What’s Actually Happening at the Login Level, Not Just Who’s Allowed Permissions and Role Membership covers who can do what. These three scripts cover something different: what’s actually happening at the login layer right now. Get-FailedLoginSummary surfaces brute-force patterns and locked accounts…
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DBA Scripts: Get Permissions and Role Membership
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security Who Can Actually Do What, at Every Level Sysadmin Members answers the single highest-stakes question: who has unrestricted access. These four scripts answer everything underneath that: explicit object and schema grants inside a database, explicit server-level grants and denies on logins, database…
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DBA Scripts: Get Top CPU Queries
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Query & Performance Tuning Three Different Ways a Query Can Be the Problem “Which query is causing this” has more than one right answer, because a query can be expensive in different ways: it can burn CPU, it can…
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