joe.eager (12/12/2013)

So I'm...

That's very kind, thank you!

You are reading the second edition, right? The guy who wrote the first edition was an idiot.

Agile done right works just fine with database modeling. Agile done wrong digs a deep dark pit of pain into which data modeling is thrown and suffers until someone realizes...

That counter is an average accumulated over the sample interval (per Books Online and it's counter type). So, the question is, what counts as the interval. So the answer to...

And yet, it's failing. It has to be an issue with the password on the application. The error is terribly clear.

If you're not monitoring queries through something like extended events, you can't be sure what was called. But, you can check the queries that are currently in cache by hitting...

It's got to be because of the conversion of the dates to strings. Just leave them as dates. Use date math and date comparisons within T-SQL. They work. String manipulation...

I looked through it. I don't see anything egregious. It is doing a lot of work. But you don't have any really obvious issues. At least, none I spotted. I'd...

What makes you think it's Intellisense? That's the type-ahead mechanisms within Management Studio. I haven't heard of, or seen, major blocking issues from that. Instead, blocking is when a query...

I'm with Gail. Probably statistics, but looking at the execution plan would sure help narrow it down.

Wow! Thank you. Very high praise. Happy I can help.

Is it a problem? I mean, you're using a lot of CPU, but are you experiencing slow performance? And further, is that slow performance caused by CPU? What are your...

You can look to the dynamic management function sys.dm_exec_plan_attributes. It will show the user_id that created the plan among other things. You'll just have to pass it the plan_handle.

You can set up extended events to capture logins. That's the one sure way to get it. But if you haven't set that up, I'm not sure there is a...

Default trace and a server-side trace are absolutely one direction for solving this.

But, a better direction would be to take advantage of extended events. They're more lightweight, less intrusive and...