The last two articles help you identify where the issue is? this one will take you through step by step process of what one may do to regain the space occupied by the databases. Hence freeing some resources on the SQL server and improving the performance too. Identify and clean Log/Temp Tables Truncate/Delete the log […]
In continuation with the previous article, this will help to identify which tables in your database are eating up space, maybe it’s just a log table or a temp table, that you may wipe off to save the space and optimize the performance of your DB. Here is how you would do this based on […]
This thread outlines how to display data and log space information for all the databases in SQL Server. This will give you an insight into which database needs to be maintained or dropped to save space on your server. Connect to the Database Engine. From the Standard bar, click New Query. Copy and paste the following example into the query window and click Execute. one may uncomment a […]
This is an obsolete, yet a powerful tool to test access to a given database server or to do some more complex stuff like building or populating a database. It’s a fast, easy way to access the database while working with SQL Server without needing SQL Server Management Studio to install. Note:OSQL was replaced with a […]
This may be useful if you have want to view or change the default location of the database files on an installed instance. View or change the default locations for database files In Object Explorer, right-click on your server and click Properties. In the left panel on that Properties page, click the Database settings tab. […]
Is the version of SQL Server with which the database is to be made compatible. The following compatibility level values can be configured (not all versions supports all of the above listed compatibility level): The compatibility level of a database dictates how certain language elements of the database functions when it relates to an earlier […]
SQL Server Management Studio may be easy to work with, however,right click on each job and select “Script Job as” to script up each one individually may take a long time, if you have too many jobs on a specified server. Why would I need all jobs to be scripted? Answer is simple, if you […]