Marios Pavlidis

Marios Pavlidis

Non Clustered Primary Keys in current database

Creating a Primary Key in SQL Server, by default creates a Clustered Index. The following statement shows all Primary Keys in current database that are using nonclustered indexes instead of clustered. This might not be necessarily wrong, as a clustered…

Batch Requests / second

DECLARE @BRPS BIGINTSELECT @BRPS=cntr_valueFROM sys.dm_os_performance_countersWHERE counter_name LIKE ‘Batch Requests/sec%’WAITFOR DELAY ‘000:00:01’SELECT (cntr_value-@BRPS) AS “Batch Requests/sec”FROM sys.dm_os_performance_countersWHERE counter_name LIKE ‘Batch Requests/sec%’

Check for suspect pages

SQL Servers keeps record of the corrupted pages it accesses in msdb table dbo.suspect_pages. Note that table only holds 1000 rows. Then again you should not find any records in it whenever querying it!

Check Backups

Following statement can be used to see the last backups of all databases. You get information of last backup’s start time, end time, duration in minutes, hours since last backup both for full and log backups. SELECT db.name,db.recovery_model_desc,d.[Database Backup Start],d.[Database…