Over the course of this stairway series, we're going to explore in detail the use of Extended Events as a diagnostic data collection tool, to track down causes of poor performance in SQL Server. This first level will start from a point known and familiar to many DBAs, namely the use of SQL Trace to track down and investigate long-running queries.
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Introduction Do we have the SQL Profiler in Azure Data Studio? In a previous article, we compared SSMS and Azure Data Studio. Now we will compare the new SQL Profiler against the old one. If you check the SQL Server Profiler documentation, you will find that SQL Profiler is deprecated and that that feature will […]
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The Data Platform community lost a couple of people this week. Euan Garden and Dean Vargas. These were good people. They're going to be sorely missed. While I wanted to say something profound about them, I don't think I can do them justice. They were both simply good. The kind of people you want to […]
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How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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