SQL Server likes to log things!
Over time this causes the system databases to grow unnecessarily, and potentially make searching for the log you want slower.
Keep things trimmed and tidy, to make it quicker and easier to find things when you actually need them!
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Stored procedure to run a SQL Server profile for X minutes, save the trace file and zip it up, and delete old zip files.
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Typically with a table in SQL Server if you want to enable compression, you’d have to duplicate the table and have downtime while you get the 2 tables in sync and swap them over. Using computed columns, you can compress a table with no downtime, and without requiring any extra database or disk space.
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If you have a large number of SQL Server instances with numerical server names, use this script to add a schedule to a job on all the servers that staggers when the job runs.

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If you’ve converted a table in SQL Server to an in memory table with durability turned on, and noticed that the files on disk keep filling your drive up, then it’s time to patch SQL Server Continue reading SQL Server 2016 Memory Optimised Table: High Disk Usage →