SQL Server: Fix: Transaction (Process ID) was deadlocked on lock | communication buffer resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction

I have a nightly SQL Agent job that aggregates backup information from system views to power a Power BI dashboard that the DBA's review periodically for database backup failures. It is actually a PowerShell job that runs every night in parallel to collect the data from hundreds of instances (both SQL Server and Oracle). As …

PowerShell & SQL Server: Search & Find Indexes By SchemaName, TableName, IndexName Or ColumnName Across Instances/DB’s

Necessity is the mother of new PowerShell code :-)! Today, I received an email request to get the list of all indexes in a given TableName but the requester did not specify the DatabaseName although the SQL InstanceName was specified. It would be too easy to ask the person for the DBName and script it …