by Garland MacNeill | Jun 6, 2019 |
I’m not sure why I hadn’t noticed this before, or why it suddenly seemed like such a novel concept to me, but while I was running a backup command one on SQL I realized what the STATS keyword actually does (red circle below). Then it hit me, it’s the... by Garland MacNeill | Mar 23, 2017 |
When in doubt, just answer a tweet I’ll admit, there is so much information out there on SQL, being a DBA, career development, and such that I have a hard time keeping up with it. I find it difficult to keep up with blog posts, twitter, and syndications while... by Garland MacNeill | Sep 9, 2016 |
SQL won’t start because the Media is Write Protected… I came across this one the other day. After applying Windows OS patches and rebooting the server, SQL wouldn’t start. Given that the server I was working on was a VM with SAN storage, I have seen... by Garland MacNeill | Mar 5, 2016 |
You are new to SSMS, or you are veteran…maybe you even forgot, but you keep seeing that number on your query window. You think to yourself, what is that? What does it mean? And how come it never says 1? Dammit…..I want to be number 1…Wait, what damn number is this guy...
