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Introducing Stedman Solutions, LLC.
As of today, March 31st 2015, I am off on a new adventure in my life. As of today I am 100% focused on my new business. Here are the details. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Stedman Solutions, LLC. To Offer SQL...
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Newsletter Mailing List Added
With all the interest in the Database Corruption Challenge, and the hundreds of email message I have exchanged with people over the last 3 days relating to the Database Corruption Challenge, I have...
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SQL Saturday Denver
This year the Denver SQL Saturday is being held on September 19th. I believe it has been 2 years since I attended SQL Saturday in Denver. Since the last time I was at SQL Saturday Denver, my...
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Stedman Solutions: Remote, Skilled DBA Services
Do you need some help with your SQL Server, but perhaps don’t need another full time DBA? Do you need some help to cover your DBA being out on vacation? Do you need help assessing the health of your...
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Database Health Monitor Beta 10.2 Released Today
It has been a long day, but I was able to get the latest Beta release of Database Health Monitor out. If you haven’t heard of Database Health Monitor monitor before, here is the quick rundown. It is a...
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Database Health Monitor – Historic Waits
With the recent release of Database Health Monitor Version 2.0 I have decided to focus on of blogging about the features and benefits of the Database Health Monitor application. There are some...
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Statistics IO for Performance Tuning in SSMS
Statistics IO and Statistics Time is another SQL Server Performance Tuning Tip to help you better understand performance bottlenecks. Have you ever wanted to know exactly how long it took for a query...
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SQL Server Mentoring – Now Available
Yesterday I was asked by a client about consulting questions and for my help without the typical minimum hourly commitment. He pointed out that he has things that he could use help with that don’t...
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Max Server Memory – SQL Server
Max Server Memory Setting Explained If you have more memory than your database and applications on the SQL Server will ever use than this is not a problem, but when you run into memory constraints this...
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Using SQL Server Compressed Backups
The Quick Scan report in Database Health Monitor detects when you are performing SQL Server backups without compression, when the compression option is available. This applies to Full backups,...
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2015 Review
What 2015 meant to me and my business. Stedman Solutions, LLC – Startup After unexpectedly leaving a regular full time employment position on March 31st 2015, the very next day April 1st 2015, Stedman...
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TSQL Script to Display Agent Job History
It can be a bit time consuming to work through the the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) user interface to check on the agent job history to find specific agent jobs that have been run. To help speed...
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SQL Server 2005 End of Life – End of Support Today
Today marks the end of life of SQL Server 2005, originally release in November of 2005, this product has finally come to its end of life point. One of my favorite features that was introduced in SQL...
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RAID10 Saved The Day
Reliable DBA Services is one of the things I talk about on my business website at http://StedmanSolutions.com, but that can mean many things to different people. To me this has many meanings. Today the...
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GE Centricity EMR Performance Tuning.
I have been doing work with multiple clients using the GE Centricity EMR product which makes extensive use of Microsoft SQL Server. The performance issues that you run into with Centricity are very...
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Database Corruption Overview for Beginners
Database Corruption Overview: Database corruption is one of those things that you can only plan for by practicing your response plan. Out of all of the things that can happen to your SQL Server this is...
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Bellingham SQL Server Users Group November Meeting
Bellingham SQL Server Users Group (Pass Chapter) – November 30th at 6:00pm. Features Presentation by Randolph West: “Back up and Restore your Database with Azure Blob Storage”. Making use of good...
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Bellingham SQL Server Users Group – January 25th
On Wednesday January 25th at 6:00pm we will be hosting the monthly meeting of the Bellingham SQL Server Users Group. January SQL Server Users Group In-Person @ 709 West Orchard Drive #4 Bellingham,...
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Corruption Repair Complete
This weekend the Stedman Solutions team had the opportunity to help a new client repair their corrupt database. By Sunday evening we had their database completely recovered and up and running. I...
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DBCC CheckDB or CheckTable – Find percent complete
You have a DBCC CHECKDB script running, something like the following, and it may take several hours to run to confirm if there is any corruption in your SQL Server Database. DBCC CHECKDB...
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