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		<title>How to List Size of Tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though disk space is cheap it continues to the be the first resource to run out on a server.&#160; And once it runs out it’s a constant battle to keep the database size in check. For sure there are things that can be done to keep database growth in control: Archive.&#160; I’ve seen databases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Size of Filegroups and Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent posts I looked at queries that show us data at the instance, the database, backups and now we will look at filegroups and the individual physical files. Too many times disk space is not an issue, it is THE issue.  This query will show several key attributes of our database at the file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database Backup Snapshot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Every Monday morning I always make it a point to run some basic checks on our production database servers.&#160; Yes, there are alerts… but sometimes those alerts get over looked, don’t get delivered, etc.&#160; I like to know implicitly that we are in decent shape… In previous posts I showed how to look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server Backup Compression Default</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In SQL Server 2008 Microsoft added the long overdue backup compression feature.  You may have noticed in the backup dialog box the pull down menu to use the DEFAULT SERVER SETTING for compression. To determine what the DEFAULT value actually is: Out of the box, SQL Server 2008 backup compression is turned OFF.  To avoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitor Transaction Log Rollback</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a situation where an index was being updated but the process hung in the middle of the job.&#160; Apparently this isn’t all that far fetched since it appears it has happened to other folks out there (the internet is the best… I rarely have a NEW problem)… After stopping the query it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>List of Databases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[T-SQL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April I posted a query that shows instance information.  This post is the next level down in the hierarchy that I collect on my database platforms each week…  The databases in an instance. This query is certainly one of the more straight forward queries to capture database data.  It probably doesn’t really need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Drop a TempDB Database File</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now The SQL Server tempDB is arguably the most important database in any installed instance.  A poorly configured tempdb will trump all the best efforts for design of good OLTP or datawarehouse systems. The standard recommendation is to have one tempdb database file for each CPU.  It’s also generally recognized that this rule of thumb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DBA Query: Instance Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my weekly routine I like to take a holistic view of the production servers I am responsible for.  After backups and maintenance plans, the next most important role of the DBA is to keep an eye on the overall health of the production databases. I have several queries that I use to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitor Transaction Isolation Levels</title>
		<link>http://www.daveturpin.com/2011/03/monitor-transaction-isolation-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SysAdmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a performance improvement effort we decided to make sure our enterprise reporting tools are operating under the READ UNCOMMITTED transaction isolation level (ie., allow dirty reads).  While our reporting application experts were certain the tools were at the desired isolation level we decided to monitor the actual transactions just to be sure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An unexpected honor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.daveturpin.com/2011/03/an-unexpected-honor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this blog, for the most part, is to provide me with a paper trail of technical SQL Server topics I feel are worth remembering.  Things that are easier for me to lookup later on and read my own explanation, if and when I need to re-learn the topic.  A secondary benefit is [...]]]></description>
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