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...
2018-10-08 (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...
2018-10-03 (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....
2018-09-28 (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)...
2018-08-23 (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...
2018-08-16 (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...
2018-08-09 (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...
2018-07-03 (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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Blogs
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices
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Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 Report is out
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Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most...
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