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Manage Your Transactions (So They Don’t Manage You – Part 2)

This is the final in a series on shrinking and transactions. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
In part 1, we talked about factors that affect transaction log growth. We talked about what a SQL Server transaction is and the various modes SQL interacts with a transaction (Autocommit, Implicit Transactions and Explicit [...]

Manage Your Transactions (So they don’t manage you – Part 1)

This is part 3 in a series on shrinking and transaction management. Click here for part 4. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
If you are one of the people who have been reading this blog, you know where I stand on shrinking databases/log files. I don’t like the practice (Post 1, Post [...]

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What SQL instances are installed on my network?

Find All SQL Server Instances On Your Network!
It’s been awhile since a tool has given me that giddy, starstruck feeling but it’s happened this week… If you ever struggle with instance discovery and management, I hope you get excited and try this tool out as well. Bear with me as I walk through it.
If you [...]

Victim of your database shrink operation?

Shrinking is a popular topic…

When I started blogging, my first posts were on shrinking. That’s still a popular search. Why?

DBA Questions To Ask A Vendor

A while back a conversation on Jonathan Kehayias’ former blog (he has moved) gave me an idea for this post.
Once you have been a DBA for any length of time, you will encounter the situation of a new vendor coming in with software that has a database back end. Wherever I am working or [...]

Old Dog? New Tricks..

Reading a blog this week, I learned quite a few new tips and tricks about SQL Server Management Studio. Incremental Serach (No annoying search window pop-up and searches as you type), replace within files from SSMS!!, Block Selects and Moves for the T-SQL Code formatting OCDers (like me). Check it out and add Aaron to [...]