Extended Events Made Easy: Using XEvent Profiler
In this post we’ll look at how quick and easy it is to use the XEvent Profiler to create an...
2018-10-08 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Matthew McGiffen
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Table Variable Performance “Fixed” in SQL 2019
Reading the new features for SQL 2019 I spotted this:
One of the most popular posts on my blog last year...
2018-10-03 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Don’t Just Rely on Query Execution Stats for T-SQL Execution
I recently had an incident where I was looking into the cause of a long running process for a client....
2018-09-28 (first published: 2018-09-18)
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2018-09-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #106 – The Trouble with Triggers
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Steve Jones asks us to talk about our experiences with Triggers:
https://voiceofthedba.com/2018/09/03/t-sql-tuesday-106-trigger-headaches-or-happiness/
In my post I’m going...
2018-09-12
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Exporting Extended Events Session Data to a Table
If you’re a long time Profiler user like me then you probably often take the option of saving (or loading)...
2018-08-23 (first published: 2018-08-08)
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Using the built-in System Health session
When Microsoft introduced Extended Events (XE) in 2008, they also gave us a built-in XE session called system_health (though it’s...
2018-08-16 (first published: 2018-08-01)
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There’s Still a Place for SQL Server Profiler
Follow a few of the SQL Family on Twitter and you’ll mostly see one view regards SQL Profiler, and it’s...
2018-08-09 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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2018-07-24
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T-SQL Tuesday 104 – Capture expensive queries with query store
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Bert Wagner invites us to share SQL scripts we’ve written that we’d hate to live...
2018-07-10
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Blogs
Microsoft MVP 2026: Ten Years on the Data Platform
I’m honored to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the...
Building AgentDBA’s Slack Escalation
By Arun Sirpal
Until now, a CRITICAL finding did the right internal routing, but the last mile...
Changing the Owner Removes Permissions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
This is actually inspired by an article SQL Server Central, which taught me something...
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Developer edition cannot connect from other computers
I installed a new SQL server 2025 Enterprise developer edition for our development environment....
How Clustering can be Used as a Preprocessing Technique for Classification in Azure Machine Learning
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Moving the Error Log
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Moving the Error Log
How can I change the location in which the SQL Server error log is written in SQL Server 2025?
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