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		<title>Parsing the Blocked Process report</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2011/10/20/parsing-the-blocked-process-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know the new blocked process report in SQL Server 2005 and beyond is awesome. Now if you have lots of blocked processes being reported it can be a bit overwheleming. How can you quickly tell if it&#8217;s the same senario over and over again or if your hitting multiple scenarios. I don&#8217;t know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=173&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Checking Index Fragmentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If your not monitoring your indexes on a regular basis shame on you, you should be. Depending on how many databases you are supporting this could end up being extremely tiedious. So here is what I do and you can tailor the process to your env. 1) Each production server I support has a DBA [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=152&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Missed Backups</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2011/10/17/missed-backups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we all miss our failed job alerts it can lead to trouble though when you need to maintain compliance. Here is a proc which will let you know if a database has not been backed up in more then X days. /****************************************************************************************************** * Created By: MotherofAllGeeks * Created on: 9/2011 * Purpose: Verify that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=149&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long Running SQL Agent Jobs</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2011/10/14/long-running-sql-agent-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever run into the situation where you had a job running into your production hours and you didn&#8217;t get a notification because the job didn&#8217;t actually fail? I have experienced just that and here is a little script to get you a notification for a job which is running too long. Create this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=138&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Evaluation Notifications</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2011/02/15/policy-evaluation-notifications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In SQL Server 2008 R1 a nice feature called Policies has been implemented. I like to use this feature to make sure no one is changing my database standards. You can create a policy to check for your standards then create the below stored proc and schedule it via a job to notify you of those policy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=129&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Potential Bottlenecks with DMVs.</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2010/07/28/finding-potential-bottlenecks-with-dmvs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following query is a great way to get a look into how your stored procedure driven application is performing. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend running this during your peak hours. What I have done is scheduled it to run in the off hours and store into a table in my dummy DB. I then query that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=124&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Table Scan</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2010/06/24/table-scan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When reviewing execution plans I often look for table scans as an indicator of an area which performance can be improved. A table scan or a clustered index scan is when the query optimizer has to search the data entirely to find the row you are requesting.  The reason this can be costly is when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=120&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does a query plan show you?</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2010/06/18/what-does-a-query-plan-show-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to describe a query plan as a road map to your data. Your query plan shows you the steps the SQL Server engine is taking to fetch your data. Typical things you want to avoid in query plans are table scans, hash matching, bookmark lookups, excessive looping, spooling and excessive compute scalar operators. To view [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=102&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Procedures with largest Compile times</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2010/06/07/finding-procedures-with-largest-compile-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://motherofallgeeks.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First you need to store the sql server plan cache into a table.. You can create a view then store the contents of that view into a table or query your view directly. Create this in the master database CREATE VIEW [dbo].[MYCache] as SELECT sp.* FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans as cp CROSS APPLY SqlAndPlan(cp.plan_handle) as sp You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=106&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SQL 2008 Cluster Install</title>
		<link>http://motherofallgeeks.com/2010/02/15/sql-2008-cluster-install/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>motherofallgeeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you had a good experience installing SQL server 2008 on a cluster? I have not. Three of the three installs I have done have failed for various reasons. The cause I have seen so far is that if the name of the application group exists in DNS prior to adding it the install is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=motherofallgeeks.com&amp;blog=5421765&amp;post=97&amp;subd=motherofallgeeks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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