One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It’s not relational and often brings nightmares of parsing and performance issues.
Compressing Outcomes
Find yourself struggling to determine the outcome of attempted compression settings in your database? This should help!
Tables, Columns and Defaults Oh My!
The joys of inheriting a new database and being thrown into the fire to quickly assimilate as much information about the database as possible can be troublesome. This script will help with that!
Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a large database backup file, that is encrypted, be much smaller.
What is DBCC?
What is really mean by DBCC and what do people mean when they say DBCC?