by George Grammatikos | Apr 19, 2018 | SQL Server, Troubleshooting
If there is a problem during the upgrade process of a SQL Instance, then follow these instruction, Check the archive Summary.txt, which is located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\XXX\Setup Bootstrap\Log directory The second file that keeps logging important... by George Grammatikos | Apr 19, 2018 | SQL Server, Troubleshooting
If there is a break in the restore process then we can follow the steps below to try solve the problem. First, Open SSMS and execute the following command to look at database Status. SELECT NAME, STATE_DESC FROM SYS.DATABASES As soon as you confirm that database is in... 
by George Grammatikos | Apr 16, 2018 | Azure, Installation / Configuration, SQL Server, VM
SQL Server: Failover Clustering and Always On Availability Groups Before we start to configure SQL Server always On, you need to make sure that you have: One Domain Controller Two Database Servers A Storage that will play the File Share Witness (Witness Quorum) All... by George Grammatikos | May 17, 2017 | SQL Server, Troubleshooting
Heap table are the tables which they don’t have any clustered index. : — List all heap tables SELECT SCH.name + ‘.’ + TBL.name AS TableName FROM sys.tables AS TBL INNER JOIN sys.schemas AS SCH ON TBL.schema_id = SCH.schema_id INNER JOIN sys.indexes... by George Grammatikos | May 17, 2017 | Installation / Configuration, SQL Server
By following the next steps you are able to create storage pools for a SQL Server installation. Storage Pool Best Practices Column Size = Number Of Disks In The Storage Pool, example 2 Disks = Column Size 2 Interleave = For OLTP Best is 256KB , For TSQL Best is 64K...
