SQL Scripts: How To Find A Database’s Compatibility Level
One thing that a lot of DBAs, especially Accidental DBAs such as myself, don’t seem to realize is that just because a database is sitting on a specific version of …
Change The Isolation Level Of An Availability Group Database
I recently needed to change the Transaction Isolation Level of one of our databases in an Availability Group. As it turns out, this is not as straight forward as you …
Discover Which Deprecated Features Are Being Used
With each new release of SQL Server comes a list of new features, along with a list of features that have been deprecated. These deprecated features are not immediately disabled …
What Features Are Disabled Between Compatibility Levels In SQL Server?
Have you ever wondered what features may or may not be available when your database is running in a different compatibility level than your SQL Server version? I recently came …
Checking The Status Of Email Sent From SQL Server
When sending email via sp_send_dbmail, SQL Server will log the status of each message processed by Database Mail. Below is quick list of Database Mail Views you can query to …