Useful Free Tools Download Links Wonderful Microsoft utilities PerfMon , Profiler , Dynamic Management Views and System Tables should provide lot of insights and help in diagnosing and troubleshooting issues. These free tools are nice add-ons and improves the productivity. Download SQL Server Management Studio …
AWS RDS API Reference
AWS RDS API Reference Some of the RDS API command usuage . Editable parameters list for SQL Server. AWS RDS Options Group aws rds describe-option-group-options –engine-name sqlserver-se AWS RDS SQLServer SE 12.0 Parameter Groups aws rds describe-db-parameters –db-parameter-group-name default.sqlserver-se-12.0 AWS RDS Instance Details aws rds describe-db-instances …
AWS SQL Server RDS Native Backup Restore
Steps to Restore .bak SQL Server backup file to Amazon SQL Server RDS
Step by Step Guide to backup and restore SQL Server backups on AWS RDS through S3 Buckets.
Launching AWS SQL Server RDS
Learning from Launching AWS SQL Server RDS
We are evaluating options to migrate our read/write heavy production SQL Server database to amazon SQL Server RDS. We have pretty high throughput needs for few hours a day for few months in a year ,which is mission critical for our business success. We are evaluating pros and cons of moving to amazon RDS with provisioned IOPS. Current hosted provider doesn’t offer on-demand scaling solution .
SQL Server Recursion / CTE
Simple Employee data hierarchy to illustrate recursion through traditional while loop as well as Common Table Expressions. ( CTE )
AWS RDS vs Azure vs Managed Services for SQL Server
We are evaluating pros and cons of different hosting solutions for SQL Server which best suits our business needs.
Our plan is to evaluate AWS SQL Server RDS, Azure RDS , Managed solutions from hosting provider.
Evaluate each option in these categories.
1. Performance and Reliability
2. Ability to scale up during peak loads
3. Cost ( Based on Network , Storage, Memory and CPU )
4. Operations Efficiency
5. Compliance
SQL Server Internal Versions
SQL Server Internal Versions SQL Server Versions Database Internal Versions and Compatibility Levels Useful Query SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘ServerName’) ‘ServerName’ , @@VERSION ‘@@version’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS’) ‘ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘MachineName’) ‘MachineName’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘InstanceName’) ‘InstanceName’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘IsClustered’) ‘IsClustered’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘BuildClrVersion’) ‘BuildClrVersion’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘Collation’) ‘Collation’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘CollationID’) ‘CollationID’ , SERVERPROPERTY(‘ComparisonStyle’) ‘ComparisonStyle’ …
Remove Procedure Cache and Reset Wait Stats
Remove Procedure Cache and Reset Wait Stats Remove all elements from the plan cache for the entire sql server instance DBCC FREEPROCCACHE; Flush the cache and suppress the regular completion message DBCC FREEPROCCACHE WITH NO_INFOMSGS; Remove all elements from the plan cache for a specific …
AWS AURORA RDS – Loading Billion Rows
We do online assessment and reporting for K-12 Education Industry. ( http://emetric.net/ ). We had a need to load 3 through K-12 students historical test reports for entire state for past 10 + years , which ended up being close to billion rows for historical data.
Amazon reInvent 2015 Las Vegas
Highlights: Data Migration Tool – We use aurora and data loading is little more than walk in the park. Hope this solves our problem. QuickSight – Explore this product for our needs RedShift – See how it can cutdown our Data warehouse costs. I have never …