Tag: Instance
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DBA Scripts: Get Trace Flags and Resource Governor Configuration
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. 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…
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DBA Scripts: Get CPU Topology and OS Configuration Checks
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks. 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…
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DBA Scripts: Get Instance Configuration Score
🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.Related pillar: Server & Configuration 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…
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