Finding Top Offenders with Extended Events
This week at MVP Summit I got to talk with a friend who loves profiler. We were talking about capturing...
2018-03-06
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Blog Posts
Killing A Service Broker SPID
Killing a SPID shouldn’t be complicated. Execute the command KILL [SPID] and that should kill the session. But there are situations...
2018-03-06 (first published: 2018-02-20)
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Packt $10 Sale
One sale today, my Getting Started with SQL Server 2016 Administration video. You can get this for $10 today, and...
2018-03-06
339 reads
Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 91 – Smart Filter by OKViz)
In this module you will learn how to use the Smart Filter by OKViz. The Smart Filter works similar to...
2018-03-06 (first published: 2018-02-22)
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Table Internal Sync Rule–Substituting the Sync Column
I’ve been playing with Data Masker for SQL Server v6 and it’s an interesting product. I like the way it...
2018-03-06
383 reads
Calculating DTU's for Azure SQL Database
One of my clients asked to calculate the DTU’s required for an existing database before migrating to Azure SQL Database....
2018-03-05
612 reads
Calculating DTU's for Azure SQL Database
One of my clients asked to calculate the DTU’s required for an existing database before migrating to Azure SQL Database. Pricing Azure SQL Database is different from traditional SQL...
2018-03-05
10 reads
Capture SQL Server Reported Errors using Extended Events
In my introduction to Extended Events blog, I mentioned that the xEvent is my favorite toy for performance troubleshooting. This blog may...
2018-03-05 (first published: 2018-02-20)
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Configure Read only routing for an always on availability group
One of my friend sent an email with the requirement to load balance the traffic coming from application to secondary...
2018-03-05
641 reads
Configure Read only routing for an always on availability group
One of my friend sent an email with the requirement to load balance the traffic coming from application to secondary SQL Server replicas in always on availability group. Read-only...
2018-03-05
13 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
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