Truncating very large transaction log in full recovery mode

While I always configure transaction log backups for every database in non-simple recovery model, and to compliment it I also have monitoring in place if transaction log doesn't get...

Getting most recent transaction log backup time irrespective of where the transaction log backup is performed in always on availability groups

I should mention outright that this post applies to SQL Server version 2016 and up.Over the years I have relied on the backup history tables in msdb to check...

How to get the Active Directory user password policy values

Recently I have had to troubleshoot quite a bit of SQL login issues and often times the issue was with the users active directory user account.I was aware the...

How do you use PowerShell toc check if an active directory user locked out, disabled etc.?

If your organization uses a password policy (there are very good odds these days that it does) and, especially stricter password requirement for administrative users, your might have experienced...

Event Notifications Example

Event notifications are kinda like a trigger in the sense that they respond to specific event, specifically in response to DDL statements and SQL Trace events.

The major difference between...

What SQL Server Agent Alerts Do I have setup?

I am in a situation where I have to incorporate SQL Server Agent alerts in my monitoring and alerting strategy.I needed a query (DMV) to get details on what...

Finding out the most cached database in the buffer cache - The DMV Way

While there are many ways and criteria to find out what database is the most used, under optimized, trouble maker etc....., here is one more to find out the...

A simple powershell script to look up server hardware and OS information

This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version...

Get email alert when number of queries waiting for CPU exceeds thresold

You may have situations where the CPU % usage is well below the alert threshold but still queries are running slow because they are waiting for CPU to be...

Powershell one liner to export data directly from SQL Server to Excel

Most of the times I use the CSV files whenever I need to import or export SQL Server data. And then if I need to do further analysis on...