Tag: Instance
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DBA Scripts: Get Trace Flags and Resource Governor Configuration
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. Two Things a Previous DBA Might Have Set and Never Told You Trace flags and Resource Governor are both instance-wide behavior changes that don’t show up in sp_configure at a glance, don’t appear in the database, and can sit silently in place for years, inherited from whoever configured the server…
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DBA Scripts: Get CPU Topology and OS Configuration Checks
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. What CPU and OS Settings Are Actually Doing to SQL Server OS and Hardware Info tells you what hardware exists. These two scripts go one level deeper: how SQL Server is actually scheduling work across that hardware, and whether a handful of OS-level settings invisible from Task Manager, Lock Pages…
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DBA Scripts: Get Instance Configuration Score
Part of the DBA-Tools Project. Get Instance Configuration Snapshot gives you every raw sp_configure setting; useful, but it doesn’t tell you which of those hundred-plus rows actually matter. This script is the graded version: roughly 20 checks spanning memory, security, backups, integrity, and database settings, each scored PASS, WARN, or FAIL against practical best-practice thresholds,…
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