Recipe 6: Auditing Successful Logins
Welcome to a new recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-02-28
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Gianluca Sartori
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Recipe 2: Writing Extended Events to a table
Welcome to the second recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-02-23
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10 DBA recipes with XESmartTarget
Some time ago, I started a project called XESmartTarget. I find it super useful and you should probably know about it. It’s totally my fault if you’re not using...
2022-02-21
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SQLSaturday is dead, long live DataSaturdays
This is a very brief post to inform you that PASS has died, killed by the for-profit company behind it. That’s sad beyond words, but we, as a community,...
2020-12-28 (first published: 2020-12-18)
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Replaying Workloads to a different Database
One of the features I was asked to implement for WorkloadTools is the ability to replay commands to a database name different from the one recorded in the source...
2020-04-09 (first published: 2020-03-31)
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Performing a real-time replay with WorkloadTools
In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to replay a workload in two different scenarios. However, there is a third scenario that is worth...
2020-03-12 (first published: 2020-03-03)
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Collecting Diagnostic data from multiple SQL Server instances with dbatools
Keeping their SQL Server instances under control is a crucial part of the job of a DBA. SQL Server offers a wide variety of DMVs to query in order...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-24)
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Troubleshooting “Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user”
This is one of those typical blog posts that I write for my future self, the guy who keeps fixing the same stuff over and over and forgets what...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-16)
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Workload replay with WorkloadTools
In my last post, I described how to capture a workload to a file, in order to run a replay against your target environment at a later time. Well,...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-20)
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Life behind a proxy server: downloading content for SSMS Help Viewer
Life behind a proxy server can be problematic. Not every software out there is tested correctly for proxy interaction and oftentimes the experience for the corporate user is a...
2019-05-22 (first published: 2019-05-09)
530 reads
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Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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