Or the chicken and egg problem when attempting to restore a corrupted model database as it was presented by my MCM colleague Gail Shaw the other day in our MCM discussion group. This is the case he presented us with: Hi all Something I’ve been puzzling...

I just happened to find that when the log manager raises error 9002 “The transaction log for database '%s' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases” the State can vary...

Following is the answer I provided to the interesting question asked by my colleague Pat Martin about the insides of crash recovery in SQL Server.   The iterator used to scan the catalog for the databases that need startup and recovery returns them...

For those of you who may not be familiarized with this object, sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats is one of the many Dynamic Management Views built into SQL Server. This one specifically falls into the category index related DMVs , and it returns counts of different...

Last week I went to a customer who showed me the following weird information.   He opened SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) 2008 R2 and connected to one particular instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 in which he observed this behavior we wasn’t able...