Weaning yourself off of SQL Profiler (Part 2)
In a prior post, I shared a script that will take a running trace and show you the XE events...
2017-05-17
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Wayne Sheffield
- Website: http://www.waynesheffield.com
Weaning yourself off of SQL Profiler (Part 1)
In this brave, new world of Extended Events (XE, XEvents), I find myself with a mixture of scripts for troubleshooting...
2017-04-25 (first published: 2017-04-19)
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Automating DBCC DBTABLE – obtaining the disk Sector Size
I was recently reading this msdn article on Ghost Records, and it mentioned that you could get the number of...
2017-04-04 (first published: 2017-03-22)
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Working with SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes
SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes
I’ve been working with running SQLSaturdays in the Richmond, VA area for several years now. It seems that every...
2017-03-09
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Identifying a row’s physical location
While you may not need to worry about the physical location of a row very often, every so often the...
2017-03-08
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Automating DBCC PAGE – Part 3 (Is a Clustered Index physically sorted on disk?)
In several of my last few blog posts, I’ve shared several methods of getting internal information from a database by...
2017-02-22
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T-SQL Tuesday #87 – Beware the Shiny New Toys
Today is yet another T-SQL Tuesday – the monthly blogging party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) to get everyone in the...
2017-02-14
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Automating DBCC PAGE, part 2 – determining object names on pages
In a prior blog post, I demonstrated how using DBCC PAGE can be automated by using the “WITH TABLERESULTS” option....
2017-01-18
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T-SQL Tuesday #86: Enhancement Requests
On the second Tuesday of each month, the SQL Server universe all comes together to blog about a topic. Known...
2017-01-10
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Windows Virtual Accounts and SQL Server
How SQL Server uses Windows Virtual Accounts and local groups
Managed Service Accounts (MSAs) and Virtual Accounts were introduced in Windows...
2016-12-28
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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