Davide Mauri

Ancora Glenn Berry nella sua serie di posts dedicati all’hardware: utile punto di partenza per chi sta per scegliere il server da acquistare per SQL Server. La serie è del 2011, ma molti posts sono ancora attuali. Per chi necessita di informazioni ancora più recenti, vi rimando al blog di Glenn.

Day 1  (Westmere-EP) Day 2 (Westmere-EX) Day 3 (AMD Opteron 6100) Day 4 (AMD Bulldozer) Day 5 (Hardware ID - DMVs) Day 6 (Hardware ID - Built-in) Day 7 (CPU-Z) Day 8 (Recommended Intel Processors) Day 9 (Recommended AMD Processors) Day 10 (Old Intel Processor Numbering) Day 11 (New Intel Processor Numbering) Day 12 (AMD Processor Numbering) Day 13 (Intel Turbo Boost) Day 14 (Intel Tick Tock Release Strategy) Day 15 (Power Plans and CPU performance) Day 16 (SQL Server 2008 R2 and Hardware) Day 17 (Geekbench) Day 18 (AMD Turbo CORE) Day 19 (RAID Controllers) Day 20 (Building a Desktop Test System) Day 21 (Processor Cache Size) Day 22 (32-bit vs. 64-bit) Day 23 (Two Socket vs. Four Socket) Day 24 (TPC-E Benchmark) Day 25 (DB Server Processor Selection) Day 26 (Laptop Processor Selection) Day 27 (Crystal DiskMark) Day 28 (Intel Chipsets and SSDs) Day 29 (Hardware Resiliency) Day 30 (RAID Level Primer)

In questa serie di posts di Jonathan Kehayias si parla di come utilizzare gli Extended Events per monitorare SQL Server.

(1 of 31) - An Overview of Extended Events (2 of 31) - Querying the Extended Events Metadata (3 of 31) - Managing Event Sessions (4 of 31) - Querying the Session Definition and Active Session DMV’s (5 of 31) - Targets Week - ring_buffer (6 of 31) - Targets Week - asynchronous_file_target (7 of 31) - Targets Week - bucketizers (8 of 31) - Targets Week - synchronous_event_counter (9 of 31) - Targets Week - pair_matching (10 of 31) - Targets Week - etw_classic_sync_target (11 of 31) - Targets Week - Using multiple targets to simplify analysis (12 of 31) - Using the Extended Events SSMS Addin (13 of 31) - The system_health Session (14 of 31) - A Closer Look at Predicates (15 of 31) - Tracking Ghost Cleanup (16 of 31) - How Many Checkpoints are Issued During a Full Backup? (17 of 31) - A Look at Backup Internals and How to Track Backup and Restore Throughput (Part 1) (18 of 31) - A Look at Backup Internals and How to Track Backup and Restore Throughput (Part 2) (19 of 31) - Using Customizable Fields (20 of 31) - Mapping Extended Events to SQL Trace (21 of 31) - The Future - Tracking Blocking in Denali (22 of 31) - The Future - fn_dblog() No More? Tracking Transaction Log Activity in Denali (23 of 31) - How it Works - Multiple Transaction Log Files (24 of 31) - What is the package0.callstack Action? (25 of 31) - The Twelve Days of Christmas (26 of 31) - Configuring Session Options (27 of 31) - The Future - Tracking Page Splits in SQL Server Denali CTP1 (28 of 31) - Tracking Page Compression Operations (29 of 31) - The Future - Looking at Database Startup in Denali (30 of 31) - Tracking Session and Statement Level Waits (31 of 31) - Event Session DDL Events

In questa serie di posts Ted Krueger riporta i principali “tips” per chi amministra SQL Server.

SQL Server DBA Tip 1 - Server Configuration - MAX Memory SQL Server DBA Tip 2 - Server Configuration - Data/Log Files SQL Server DBA Tip 3 - Server Configuration - Model Database SQL Server DBA Tip 4 - Server Considerations - 32 bit / 64 bit SQL Server DBA Tip 5 - Server Considerations - Installing Features (SSIS, SSRS, Engine, SSAS) SQL Server DBA Tip 6 - Server Security - Windows Authentication / SQL Authentication SQL Server DBA Tip 7 - Server Security and grouping - Schema Control SQL Server DBA Tip 8 - Server Monitoring - Baseline SQL Server DBA Tip 9 - SQL Server Monitoring - Default Trace SQL Server DBA Tip 10 - SQL Server Reporting - Offload the reporting factor SQL Server DBA Tip 11 - SQL Server Configuration - MIN Memory SQL Server DBA Tip 12 - SQL Server Tuning - Missing Index DMV SQL Server DBA Tip 13 - SQL Server built in DR/HA Solutions SQL Server DBA Tip 14 - SQL Server General - Updating Production Data SQL Server DBA Tip 15 - SQL Server Agent - Job ownership SQL Server DBA Tip 16 - Working with Files and Folders

Beh, non propriamente uno al giorno, ma comunque utilissimi per comprendere alcuni dei meccanismi “dietro le quinte” di SQL Server

#1 March 2011: RESTART option for RESTORE commands (video | demo code) #2 March 2011: Logging during SELECT-INTO operations (video | demo code) #3 April 2011: Undocumented DBCC commands (video | demo code) #4 April 2011: Log file performance analysis (video | demo code) #5 May 2011: Nested transactions (video | demo code) #6 May 2011: Checkpoint tracking (video | demo code) #7 May 2011: Trusting the tools - Kimberly (video) #8 June 2011: Tempdb latch contention (video | demo code) #9 June 2011: Wait stats for a single operation (video | demo code) #10 July 2011: Database snapshots (video | demo code) #11 July 2011: Undroppable log files (video | demo code) #12 August 2011: Tail-of-the-log backups (video | demo code) #13 August 2011: Error log management (video) #14 September 2011: Inconsistent analysis (video | demo code) #15 October 2011: Fully logged operations (video | demo code) #16 October 2011: Tempdb space tracking (video | demo code) #17 October 2011: Deadlock analysis - Joe (video | demo code) #18 November 2011: Query timeout debugging (video | demo code) #19 December 2011: Deadlock debugging - Joe (video | demo code)

Rilasciato l’aggiornamento di Dicembre 2012 di SQL Server Data Tools. Molte ed importanti gli aggiornamenti di questo rilascio, in particolare il supporto allo Unit-Test dei database.

Informazioni dettagliate sul contenuto di questo release, si trovano sul post del blog del team ufficiale:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/archive/2012/12/13/available-today-ssdt-december-2012.aspx