Tag: Disk Space
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DBA Scripts: Get Log Reuse Waits
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity The One Question That Actually Matters A transaction log that won’t stop growing, or a log backup job that suddenly can’t keep up, always comes back to the same underlying question: what is this database’s log actually waiting on before…
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DBA Scripts: Storage and Capacity
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. A SQL Server running out of room fails in several different ways depending on exactly which resource ran out: a full data file stops inserts, a full log file freezes the whole database, a full disk volume takes down everything on it, and…
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DBA Scripts: Get Filegroup Space
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity The Filegroup That’s Actually About to Run Out Database Free Space Summary tells you a database has plenty of room overall. That can still be wrong for a specific filegroup: a database on multiple filegroups can look comfortable in total…
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DBA Scripts: Get Database Growth Risk and Forecast
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity Two Different Questions: “Is It Close?” and “When Will It Hit?” “How close is this database to its configured size limit?” and “at its current growth rate, when will it actually get there?” are two different questions, and answering them…
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DBA Scripts: Get Database Free Space Summary
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity Allocated vs Used, Split by Data and Log, Every Database, One Pass Database Files Detail gives you file-level detail. This script gives you the consolidated view above that: allocated, used, and free space for every online database, split into data…
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