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...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-09-25)
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Matthew McGiffen DBA
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...
2019-04-26 (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....
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-09-18)
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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)...
2019-04-26 (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...
2019-04-26 (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...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-07-25)
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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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Alter Multiple Databases at Once
This is a quick and dirty method I often use when I want to make a change to multiple databases...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2018-06-26)
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Cycle Through Your Clipboard History In SSMS
This is my favourite SSMS trick I’ve discovered recently, probably some time towards the end of last year.
Basically, when you...
2018-06-06
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Secure Cached Plans
The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?
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