Checking the Health of your CLR

The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the fundamental nerve center of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is this nerve center that...

Checking the Health of your CLR

Having a tool to be able to monitor CLR health will be essential as you deploy more and more managed code within SQL Server. Extended Events offers a great...

SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics

One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would...

SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics

One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would be called defaults. Having default settings is not a...

Dynamics AX Event Session

Many moons ago, I wrote about how to enable the context info for Dynamics AX. Having the context info enabled...

Summiting that Technical Challenge

The challenge at hand - conquering that technical problem and getting that high associated with the metaphorical high of summiting a tough task.
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Common Tempdb Trace Flags – Back to Basics

Once in a while I come across something that sounds fun or interesting and decide to dive a little deeper...

Common Tempdb Trace Flags – Back to Basics

In this article I introduce you to some basics in regards to default behaviors and settings in tempdb along with some best practices. It is advisable to investigate from...

Changing Default Logs Directory – Back to Basics

In this article I will explore altering the default logs directory location. Some may say this is no big deal and you can just use the default location used...

An Identity Crisis: Is it Profiler or is it Extended Events?

I have been working on this article for far longer than one might think is necessary for something of this...