Mike Eastland

Mike has been a SQL Server DBA since 1999. His main areas of interest are monitoring and the automation of administrative tasks.
Database Console Commands DBCCs
- SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB, CHECKCATALOG and CHECKALLOC for VLDBs (last update: 1/28/2015)
DBA Best Practices
- Enable SQL Server Instant File Initialization for Time Savings (last update: 5/24/2016)
Indexing
- SQL Server Performance Tuning Tip - Index Foreign Key Columns (last update: 5/26/2016)
Log Shipping
- Fix SQL Server Log Shipping After a New Database File has been Added (last update: 1/22/2014)
Monitoring
- Monitor Remote SQL Server Instance Availability (last update: 5/19/2015)
- Monitor SQL Server Transaction Log File Free Space (last update: 5/12/2015)
- Monitor Storage Constraints for SQL Server Data Files (last update: 3/19/2015)
- Monitoring SQL Server Disk Space (last update: 4/19/2013)
- Search multiple SQL Server Error Logs at the same time (last update: 1/10/2014)
Restore
- SQL Server Database RESTORE WITH MOVE or not WITH MOVE (last update: 11/22/2013)