Category: Maintenance

  • DBA Scripts: Collect Blocking and Deadlock Events

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Collectors & Baselines Standing Watch for Blocking and Deadlocks, Not Just Checking When Asked Get Blocking Sessions and Get Deadlock Summary answer “what’s happening right now.” These two generators answer a different question: “what happened while nobody was looking.”…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Generate Index Maintenance Jobs

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Maintenance Job Framework A Readable Generator for Index Rebuilds and Statistics Updates If you’re already running Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution, this won’t replace it, but the approach here might still be useful: a small, readable T-SQL generator that builds…

    Written by

    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get SQL Agent Job Failure Summary

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › SQL Agent & Jobs Get SQL Agent Job Overview answers “what’s the current state of every job.” This script answers a narrower, more urgent question: “what actually failed recently, and why.” Job history in msdb holds the error message…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Maintenance Job Status

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Maintenance Job Framework A maintenance job that’s silently failing is one of the more dangerous states a SQL Server instance can be in, because everything looks normal from the outside. The database is online, queries run fine, and the…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Agent Alerts and Operators

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › SQL Agent & Jobs A SQL Server can raise a severity 19-25 error, the fatal, “something is genuinely broken” tier, corruption, out-of-resource conditions, hardware faults, and if there’s no alert configured for that severity, nothing happens. No email, no…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Index Design Issues

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Most index problems aren’t about a single bad index, they’re about a table’s index design as a whole drifting out of shape over time. A table that accumulates 25 indexes because nobody ever removed the old ones.…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Duplicate Indexes

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Indexes accumulate the same way clutter does: one developer adds an index to fix a slow query, a colleague adds a near-identical one three months later because the first one wasn’t obvious from the name, and nobody…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Unused Indexes

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Every non-clustered index has to be maintained by SQL Server on every INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE against the table. A table with 12 non-clustered indexes means 12 index updates for every row changed. Some of those indexes…

    Written by

    Peter Whyte

  • When Shrinking Temp DB Just Won’t Shrink

    This is broken. You run DBCC SHRINKFILE on the Temp DB data files, maybe throw in a CHECKPOINT for good measure, and nothing moves. The files sit there stubbornly taking up space you need back. I am not in the habit of shrinking databases. It fragments files and usually just creates more work later. But…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Heaps

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Heaps in SQL Server Explained A surprising amount of SQL Server performance pain comes from tables that were never given a clustered index. These heaps often start life as quick prototypes, staging tables, or legacy leftovers, but…

    Written by

    Peter Whyte
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