Category: Admin

Why should we upgrade off of SQL Server 2000?

A good many companies still have servers chugging along on SQL Server 2000 (or even, as some of us noted on Twitter, SQL Server 7.0 and 6.5) . If you’re one of those companies, and you’ve never had a problem with it, why should you upgrade?1, stability: It’s completely out of support. Microsoft won’t release […]

Quick Tip: Where’s my SQL Server Job History?

Here’s a quick mystery. You have a SQL Server with several jobs that appear to be running properly and on schedule, but many of them show no history. You look around, and there doesn’t seem to be a nightly job history purge (you’re looking for something with “sp_purge_jobhistory“).  So where is the record of these […]

T-SQL Tuesday #40 Roundup: Files and Filegroups

Good day all, and happy T-SQL Tuesday #40! Yes, this event has officially hit middle age now. I fully expect it’ll go get itself a fast car in the upcoming months. We had a great turnout for this month. “Files and Filegroups” is an open enough topic that I got exactly what I wanted: A nice variety […]