# SA Data > Executive level Data consulting, providing advice, training, project planning, team building, and more. With over 100 successful projects deliver, let us help your data project add to the statistics! ## Posts - [How to start your Data Engineering career](https://sadataconsultants.com/how-to-start-your-data-engineering-career/): How to start your Data Engineering Career Understand the subtle difference between being an Engineer, and a Data Engineer. The difference between a Data Engineer and an Engineer, is an understanding of the importance of data, and how introducing pollution to a data set, can have catastrophic consequences downstream If this is all new to you, Data Warehousing concepts can cover most conversations, as these will help you get a foundational understand of what Data Engineering is trying to achieve. There are lots of nuances of course, but just as a general principle, when to use 3rd Normal form vs […] - [Getting the most from your SAN - SQL Rally 2013 Session](https://sadataconsultants.com/getting-the-most-from-your-san-sql-rally-2013-session/): I recently spoke at SQL Rally Nordic in Stockholm, and they have kindly made the recordings available for general viewing! I can’t watch it myself, because then I’d have to hear my voice, and I can’t bring myself to do it… But hopefully you enjoy it a little more than me! I cover File and Filegroup layout to ensure you’re getting the most from your storage, including a case study which increases the throughput on a table scan in a Data Warehouse just by adjusting the Filegroup layout. Enjoy! If you’re interested in the other session videos, head over to http://www.sqlpass.org/sqlrally/2013/nordic/Agenda/ConferenceSessions.aspx […] - [Taking the MCM - Diary of a panicker](https://sadataconsultants.com/taking-the-mcm-diary-of-a-panicker/): (Note, going to start updating this along with the Prodata blog, some of the stuff crosses over, so why not!) I was lucky enough to take and pass the MCM lab exam this week, which as anyone who is in the depths of it knows, qualifies you as a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server. They’ve really lowered the bar letting me join the club  There are 101 great blogs about taking the MCM, the experience itself, ranging from the SQL Ranger days, to the public on sites in Redmond, up to now, when you can take it via Prometric, […] - [Microsoft MAP tool - Helping you help yourself](https://sadataconsultants.com/microsoft-map-tool-helping-you-help-yourself/): Hey, With the release of MAP toolkit 7.0, Microsoft have taken a huge leap in making this tool more useful across the board. Previously, if you didn’t have the CPT Excel plugin also, manipulating data coming out of the tool wasn’t the most fun. Now however, it puts so much information at your fingertips so easily, it may become part of my standard toolkit. Apart from the obvious consolidation/virtualization capabilities, the MAP tool is really great for gathering information on your estate. From licencing exposure, to general server health, it can give you a lot of information quickly and easily. […] - [New beginnings](https://sadataconsultants.com/new-beginnings/): Hey, Not a technical post today, nor a long one, but just a little bookmark to signify the end of a chapter in my career. I finished up with Payzone last week, and have started work with Prodata as of Monday. It is a massive step up in trying to take my SQL knowledge to the next level, I’m hoping by surrounding myself with super geniuses, by virtue of osmosis I’ll get to the next stage. In the likely event of me becoming the janitor, I will not blog about it… So a fond farewell to Payzone, and an exciting hello […] - [Database (In Recovery) - Should I panic?](https://sadataconsultants.com/database-in-recovery-should-i-panic/): You can if you want, but there’s no need really. But go on, have a bit of a panic…. Done? Great! Going through some stuff here in preparation for me leaving my current job, and it occurred to me that while I have experienced this, and dealt with it now, that back when I first saw it, I almost did a little wee. This is the fellow I’m talking about Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire Fire! I had no idea what it meant, I’d heard terms like “Suspect database” thrown around, and was told I was doomed if I […] - [Actually testing your mirroring failover](https://sadataconsultants.com/actually-testing-your-mirroring-failover/): Hey, This is something I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while, because I’m a big fan of database mirroring, however in a lot of scenarios (And I have been guilty of this in the past too), it’s almost a false safety net. Yes, your data is on a separate server in case your primary blows up, but in the event of a disaster, will your back up server actually work? Without checking it, the correct answer is always going to be “Who the hell knows?” So in light of that, I wanted to do a post to raise […] - [Resource governor - Making VM's a safer place to be](https://sadataconsultants.com/resource-governor-making-vms-a-safer-place-to-be/): Hey, Apologies for the continued absence of posting, work is a harsh mistress… Anyway, something I wanted to share with you as part of my ongoing virtualization learnings (AKA Hiccups). When you have limited resources you may find yourself needing to get deeper with how you dole out the resources to your SQL instance. Setting Max memory correctly doesn’t mean a single user/query won’t eat every available byte. Limiting the instance to 4 vCPU’s doesn’t mean running DBCC checks won’t leave your system crying. In a lot of cases purchasing licences to allocate 8 vCPU’s (or the bribes to convince […] - [How To : Migrating reporting services](https://sadataconsultants.com/how-to-migrating-reporting-services/): Hey, I may be alone on this ship, but migrations from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 are a happening all over my office, and one of the pains is migrating the non database services surrounding SQL, such as Analysis Services, Reporting Services etc. So after one pain staking migration of Reporting Services, I thought I’d try something else, as even if it exploded and maimed everyone on a school bus, it wouldn’t be any less painful than what I had just done. Lo and behold, it’s probably the simplest thing you could possibly do… So my assumptions here. You have […] - [Stupid mistakes year : Replication...](https://sadataconsultants.com/stupid-mistakes-year-replication/): Hey, I wanted to get back to the original theme of the blog for a bit, making stupid mistakes! I reckon I can fill the internet with these… But one in particular I wanted to share with you real quick. I get where Rick Deckard (Blog) was coming from. I’ve often thought of shooting rogue replicants in the face when they get out of hand. One such tale… While moving some databases around in a consolidation effort, replication from one of our primary transaction databases was constantly failing to the new Data Warehouse, it kept failing with an error message […] - [Setting up your disks correctly - Worth while? Obvious answer to follow...](https://sadataconsultants.com/setting-up-your-disks-correctly-worth-while-obvious-answer-to-follow/): Hey, Thanks to a massive rollout internally here the blogs have been few and far between, and unfortunately that’s likely to be the case for the next 3 months, but I’ll try to add something of value when I do manage one! Hope the new year is treating everyone well, and to help your January hangover (and possibly to help any new hardware you got breathe better), here’s a small article on why you should take a little time to get your disks set up right when you’re deploying a new SQL Server. The script I’m using to generate these […] - [Statistics show, Statistics may kill you](https://sadataconsultants.com/statistics-show-statistics-may-kill-you/): Hey, Sorry for the long delay in posts, the usual, life getting in the way! But I recently had what to me seemed an obscure problem (although in hindsight, duh), but turned out to be caused by out of date statistics (Big thanks to Brent Ozar for the assist twitter | blog). The Problem To cut a long story short, I had two very similar queries, the only difference was that one had an ORDER BY in there, which sends the data to the TempDB for sorting. The query with the ORDER BY took 1 minute 42 seconds to complete, […] - [CPU Pressure on VM's, not where you might think](https://sadataconsultants.com/cpu-pressure-on-vms-not-where-you-might-think/): Hi, ***Update 23/11/2011 – Issue identified, with thanks to Brian Carrig! Check the comments for the details *** Just a short one to share something interesting I found while using VMWare to run SQL Server in production. As soon as I get over the mad pre-Christmas rush, I hope to get posts out with more regularity. While the following is true for all SQL server deployments, I’ve found in particular on Virtualised environments that CPU pressure doesn’t necessarily come from the “100% CPU usage” category. The situation I find myself in is that my overall CPU usage is quite low, […] - [Why are indexes good for your server?](https://sadataconsultants.com/why-are-indexes-good-for-your-server/): Hey, It’s quite a well known fact that indexes can be good for your queries. They offer a shorter route to your data, and take some load off your server. They achieve this by creating a Balanced Tree (B-Tree) with pointers to your data. So in a table with customer names, if you search for “Mark”, instead of doing a full table scan to check all data for the name “Mark”, an index on the name column will have all occurrences of the name “Mark”, and can take a direct route to get your data. But why does this make […] - [So you wanna be a DBA? SQL Certification is the way! Kind of...](https://sadataconsultants.com/so-you-wanna-be-a-dba-sql-certification-is-the-way-kind-of/): Hey, So a less technical piece this week to touch on something I struggled to find information about when I was starting off. There comes a point where you accept the inevitable, and you decide you’re going to learn something about SQL Server. The logical decision is to go on a course, but what course, where, and what do you do after that? So here’s a little breakdown of the path I took, and my thoughts on the benefits of it now having garnered some fresh experience since doing the exams, plus a little detail on options for taking the […] - [SQL Server workload analysis with SQL Nexus](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-server-workload-analysis-with-sql-nexus/): Hey, I’ve finally gotten around to doing this. I had so much difficulty getting the video done that I just left in some of the, what should have been, out takes, so apologies for that! This is a very quick guide to gathering data, and importing it into an app called SQL Nexus. It will give you a clear and concise look at the goings on in your SQL server. The report I clicked and it threw up an error, I hadn’t connected it up properly, so it’s not the apps fault (It’s not a feature I use so my […] - [SQL Server and Virtualization - Part 3 - Disk](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-server-and-virtualization-part-3-disk/): Hey, Ok, so the third and final part of my little series on virtualization and SQL Server, the disk. In my opinion, laying out a disk on VM is the area which most closely resembles it’s physical server counterpart. It doesn’t really have the hidden pitfalls that memory and CPU bring to the table. So treat it from a layout perspective as if it were a regular server. By that I mean have your two partitions for Data and logs, have another for archive files if you had them before, partition for TempDB etc. It’s well documented on best practices […] - [Galway User Group Slides and Notes](https://sadataconsultants.com/galway-user-group-slides-and-notes/): Hey, Just want to say thank you to everyone who came out to the talk on Friday, I really do appreciate all the support and feedback. Below are links to the Powerpoint and Word doc on server builds. If anyone ever has any questions please contact me whenever. Here’s the link to a skydrive folder with the docs : Link Thanks again! Stephen - [SQL Server and Virtualization - Part 2 - Memory](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-server-and-virtualization-part-2-memory/): Hey, Sorry, I had hoped to have this out last week but working on fixing the problems I want to talk about has kept me from it! So last week I covered Virtualization and CPU’s at a high level, and this week I’d like to look at considerations you need to take when speccing out your RAM. Something I really should have mentioned in the last blog, but is even more apt when it comes to sizing memory, is that your considerations on setting up servers now has to extend beyond the individual server you are working on. You now […] - [SQL Server and Virtualization - Part 1 - CPU](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-server-and-virtualization-part-1-cpu/): Hey, So a hot topic in my work life at the moment is virtualization, and it’s going to become a hot topic in other peoples work lives very soon. Virtualization as a whole is a great idea, it’s a money saver, it makes hardware redundancy so much easier to manage, and there are so many behind the scenes tweaks you can make to improve your guests with little to no fuss. Enter SQL Server. As a DBA, I want dedicated hardware, the most expensive out there, with a team of NASA trained chimps to keep everything ticking over the way […] - [Guage memory usage with AWE enabled](https://sadataconsultants.com/guage-memory-usage-with-awe-enabled/): Hey, So wedding season is over and it’s back to reality, and back to getting beat up by SQL! As a follow on from my last post, SQL Server 32 Bit and AWE, I wanted to cover the topic of monitoring your memory. So as you may have noticed when you enabled it, if you look in task manager, sqlserver.exe is more than likely using a lot less memory than it was before. Great! You might say, as I did, it’s managing it’s memory so much better now, what a great result! Wrong. Over to Microsoft regarding AWE: “Each instance […] - [SQL Server 32 Bit and AWE](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-server-32-bit-and-awe/): Hey, Just a quick post based on some questions on performance boosts I received at the presentation the other night. There are so many ways to tune your SQL Instance/application, but for someone who wouldn’t be too comfortable going in deep, the biggest bang for the buck, for me, comes from loading your server with more RAM and enabling AWE. There are limitations inherent to 32 bit addressing where it can only support an upper limit of 4 GB of RAM natively, so even if you load up your host machine with 32GB of RAM, the most SQL will be […] - [Weekend Warrior DBA Edition Presentation and notes](https://sadataconsultants.com/weekend-warrior-dba-edition-presentation-and-notes/): Hey, Just want to say thank you to everyone who came out to the talk tonight, I really do appreciate all the support and feedback. Below are links to the Powerpoint and Word doc on server builds. If anyone ever has any questions please contact me whenever. Here’s the link to a skydrive folder with the docs : Link Thanks again! Stephen - [Introduction to the Maintenance Plan Wizard - Part 4](https://sadataconsultants.com/introduction-to-the-maintenance-plan-wizard-part-4/): Today we’ll do the 4th and final part of the Maintenance Plan Wizard, which covers Backups and keeping your hard disks clean! Back Up Database (Full)The jobs get more obvious as they go on, making my explanations a bit easier! This takes a full copy of your database and dumps it to a file (usually .bak). If possible, run this every night for all of your databases, as these are the jobs that will save your neck should you lose your database/server. Best practice is to back up to a network share to make sure your backups are completely redundant, […] - [Introduction to the Maintenance Plan Wizard - Part 3](https://sadataconsultants.com/introduction-to-the-maintenance-plan-wizard-part-3/): Today I’m going to move on to part 3 (of 4) of explaining the Maintenance Plan Wizard. Here’s a picture of the layout again, just in case you forgot!So today we’ll start with:Update StatisticsSo first, what are statistics. Statistics are SQL Servers internal information which it uses to make sure that your Query Plans are as optimal as possible. It does by tracking how well your indexes are performing, and are the cached query plans still the fastest way to get you your data.The Update Statistics job kicks off a manual check of your statistics. By default the statistics will […] - [Introduction to the Maintenance Plan Wizard - Part 2](https://sadataconsultants.com/introduction-to-the-maintenance-plan-wizard-part-2/): Woo, 2 in a row! Today I’ll be doing the second part of walking through the Maintenance Plan Wizard, Re-Organizing and Re-Building indexes. Reorganize IndexAgain, does what it says on the tin. This task kicks off an “Alter index REORGANIZE” for all the indexes in your database. It moves around the data in your index to try to put them back in the correct order. It does this by defragmenting the data at a Leaf (Smallest) level. The benefits of defragmenting in this way are that you can keep the index online so your database/index is still accessible while you […] - [Introduction to the Maintenance Plan Wizard - Part 1](https://sadataconsultants.com/introduction-to-the-maintenance-plan-wizard-part-1/): Hey, Sorry for the sporadic posts, planning a wedding and blogging do not necessarily go hand in hand! Anyway, moving on, I’m putting together a presentation for the Reluctant DBA, and part of it will be on the Maintenance plan wizard, and how it is the (slightly blunt) swiss army knife for the DBA with time in short supply. So I thought it might be good to do a series of blogs on the Maintenance Plan Wizard, what each task does, why you should be running the tasks, and a set of guidelines on when/how to run them. The two […] - [Building a server](https://sadataconsultants.com/building-a-server/): Hey, Updates are few and far between at the moment due to my own learning, but this one I’ve had a few questions on recently, so I thought it might be worthwhile sticking up a quick post. Building a server to host a SQL database is slightly different to building a regular App server, so here’s a copy and paste from my standard routine, so apologies for the alignment!. Obviously these are guidelines and are subject to change depending on your requirements, but these are a good starting point if you find yourself on your own! The reasoning behind setting […] - [Limiting the amount of CPU's/cores a query uses](https://sadataconsultants.com/limiting-the-amount-of-cpus-cores-a-query-uses/): Afternoon all, Sorry for the absence of updates recently, I’ve been getting stuck into certifications and unfortunately between studying and a full work schedule, finding time for updates has been hard to come by. Hope to get a break soon though and get back to updating regularly. Just a quick one this time, it’s based on the ‘Max Degree of Parallelism’ setting in SQL Server, which I won’t go into in detail as that’s a whole other kettle of fish. (Anyone interested in looking into that further, have a look here). By sticking the following line at the end of […] - [Follow up on last weeks problem : Performance results](https://sadataconsultants.com/follow-up-on-last-weeks-problem-performance-results/): Hey, A short one today, but I thought it might be nice to have some hard facts on the performance tuning I had been doing, rather than all hypotheticals. I’m happy to report that it went very smoothly, applying two indexes, identified by Database Engine Tuning Advisor, has eliminated all timeouts, and dropped our average query time from 30 seconds, to 0.7 seconds. Oh my yes. The disk I/O has dropped massively also. My average Disk queue/length in performance monitor was routinely maxed out at 100%, with the indexing applied it hasn’t gone above 15%. One last example, a large […] - [SQL Profiler and Tuning Advisor](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-profiler-and-tuning-advisor/): Just a short one again today, as an issue came up today which required some new indexes to resolve the problem, and I wanted to stick it up while it was fresh in my mind. There are many great articles out there on SQL Profiler and Database Tuning Advisor, and Microsoft provide detailed overviews also on Profiler and Tuning Advisor. What I want to talk about is the timing of when you run your trace dependent on what you’re trying to resolve. General Performance ImprovementIf you just want to analyse the environment in general for improvements, you will want to run […] - [Choosing your database recovery model](https://sadataconsultants.com/choosing-your-database-recovery-model/): Evening all, hope the weekend went well for everyone. Just a short one today as I’m still in the thick of it with my SAN, oh the joys! This topic cropped up yesterday when a colleague of mine was setting up a 60GB database for mirroring, and after spending hours transferring the file, discovered he had the database set to use the wrong recovery model and had to start the whole lot again. Rather him than me! Here is an in depth look at recovery models from Microsoft, and goes into all the detail you’ll need. Below is just a […] - [Replication VS Mirroring, and what to use for a Disaster Recovery setup](https://sadataconsultants.com/replication-vs-mirroring-and-what-to-use-for-a-disaster-recovery-setup/): One question I seem to get asked a lot is what is the difference between Replication and Mirroring when it comes to SQL, and especially for the Sys Admin stuck in the middle, what is the best one to use for a Disaster Recovery scenario. Firstly, for people who haven’t heard of either, both replication and mirroring are methods of transferring data from a primary database, to a secondary database or databases. Two common scenarios for this are to have a separate copy of the database for reporting purposes, or to have a copy of the database safely off site […] - [How locking works on a table, and how it can affect your applications](https://sadataconsultants.com/how-locking-works-on-a-table-and-how-it-can-affect-your-applications/): Another one close to my heart today, and apologies for it being a little shorter than usual, a problem with table locking is taking up all of my free time! This is just a short guide to what locking is, how it works, why each different type is good and bad, and in turn how it can create problems on your applications. First I’ll start off by explaining how data is stored in a database, which will make sense of the page locking outlined below. Data in a table is stored in 8k blocks called pages. The amount of rows […] - [Choosing the right RAID, and why disk layout is so important to a DB](https://sadataconsultants.com/choosing-the-right-raid-and-why-disk-layout-is-so-important-to-a-db/): This is a topic that is close to my heart at the moment. We are using a slightly older SAN here at the moment, and at the time it was set up, it was set up slightly below optimal. So now we are paying the price as our database performance requirements have outgrown the setup we have on the SAN. The core of my database environment is made up of high volume transactional systems, which all require massive disk I/O capabilities. There are still massive problems despite the machines having dual quad core CPU’s and 16GB of RAM each, so […] - [SQL Editions and Development Vs The Real World (Not the MTV Version, sorry)](https://sadataconsultants.com/sql-editions-and-development-vs-the-real-world-not-the-mtv-version-sorry/): So a two-for for the first day. One thing I find going in as a DBA to smaller companies is that the SQL versioning across the site is very rarely uniform. I think the reason for this, is that there are quite a few different versions of SQL, and unless you delve deeply, they all look the friggin same. They all install, have management studio, and run database stuff. What more do you need? Well as you progress, you learn the important differences between the versioning, the reasons for needing to know, and how you can use the knowledge to […] - [Welcome, and a little bit about me](https://sadataconsultants.com/welcome-and-a-little-bit-about-me/): First post! Woo! Not as epic as it sounded in my head. So a little bit about me. I’m the Senior SQL DBA for a multi national company based in Dublin, and have been for almost 4 years. Before that, I worked as a Sys Admin/Guerilla DBA for many other companies. 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