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 workloads and doing analysis on them. T-SQL or other...
2018-03-06
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Blog Posts
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
293 reads
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
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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
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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
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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
613 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 SQL Server replicas in always on availability group. Read-only...
2018-03-05
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Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Backup Availability Group
Please I am hoping for some feedback Specifications: Windows Server 2022 SQL Server 2022...
How Do the Experts Become Experts?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How Do the Experts Become...
Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments...
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Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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