The Extended Events (or XEvents) feature has been part of SQL Server since 2008, but many database professionals struggle to get started using it. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates several useful Extended Event sessions that measure just one thing in each. He then provides the code necessary to parse the resulting XML into something you can use.
2018-10-29
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SQL Server 2016 & 2017 enable a new way to get query performance metrics live via Extended Events.
2018-10-26
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Whoever creates an AlwaysOn group is, by default, the owner of the endpoint. This is generally not a problem…unless that person leaves the company and you need to delete the login.
2018-10-25
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In this tip we look at to create a SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB errors email formatted in an HTML table. This will report any errors for all of your databases on the server.
2018-10-24
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Learn how you can post notifications from SQL Server directly to a Slack channel.
2018-10-23
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In this tip we look at how to schedule SQL Server tasks on Linux servers using Cron.
2018-10-23
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QRCoder is an open source implementation of standards specification ISO/IEC 18004, which defines the requirements for two-dimensional QR Code symbols. It is a more complete implementation of the standard than the open source QRCode4CS library that was used in a previous article.
2018-10-22
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SQL Server DBAs are typically quite familiar with security and best practices in Windows but may not understand how security works in Linux. In this article, Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman demonstrates how to manage user accounts in Linux and why working while logged in as root is a bad idea.
2018-10-22
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Sharing our experience using Data Compression as a space savings option in MS SQL Server 2008
2018-10-19 (first published: 2016-01-18)
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In which you ask your assistant to fetch your coffee, and time them.
2018-10-19
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Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet...
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