by XTIVIA | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
******** IMPORTANT WARNING ******** DO NOT ENCRYPT ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST TAKING BACKUPS OF ALL KEYS, BACKUP THE CERTIFICATE, AND NOTE THE PASSWORDS USED. When dealing with encryption of any kind in SQL Server it all begins with the Service Master Key (SMK)....
by Kathleen Long | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Databases
If you are new to SSRS, or just new to the company and you have a developer promising you they deployed a report to the report server, but it had disappear from the display… Here is a hint of where you might find it. Here you have your report manager interface. The...
by Kathleen Long | Dec 15, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
A while back, I was tasked with using extended events to see what information could be captured to help a customer out with troubleshooting a performance issue. My first step was to see which SQL Server extended events were available on the server. With each version...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Have you heard and understand why processing a ‘select * from any table’ can be negative on the performance impact? While I was doing some demo prep for my upcoming PASS Summit Pre-Conference I saw this behavior at its worst. Before we jump into why...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Sometimes things should only happen at certain times. Not long ago I was asked to create a script that is triggered by an event, however, would only execute certain commands if the event occurred during a single specific time range. Creating an alert to handle...
by XTIVIA | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Recently for a client I had to manually remove a few failed database software installations and a couple of failed client installs from a Windows 2008R2 server. Attempts were made to try and force a 10.2.0.1 Oracle Database and client install on the server. They were...
by XTIVIA | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So we have several Virtual-DBA clients that come to us that either had previous DBAs onsite or previous remote DBA services. Everyone has different ways of setting up performance monitoring of databases, though a potentional problem that I see a lot is the...
by XTIVIA | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
I encountered an issue today with an instance that was showing up in OEM 11g though you couldn’t get to the database instance management page as the Agent Connection to Instance was reporting Unavailable. I came up with nothing after a few hours of checking...
by Kathleen Long | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Databases
While doing research for an upcoming add on to our standard Health Checks, I have been reviewing the different option to set in the configuration file for SQL Server Reporting Services. There are memory settings which should be addressed, especially if you are running...
by XTIVIA | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Beginning in SQL Server 2005 Microsoft introduced a hidden database called the Resource Database. While it is often referred to as the resource database the actual name is mssqlsystemresource. The database contains all the system objects that are included with SQL...
