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Why oh Why? Effects of Antivirus on a DB Server
TSQL Tuesday *shrug* my post is late due to technical issues. The second Tuesday of the month is upon us once again. That means it is time for another group blog party called TSQLTuesday. This party...
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The Gift of the SPN
TSQL Tuesday The second Tuesday of the month is upon us once again. That means it is time for another group blog party called TSQLTuesday. This party that was started by Adam Machanic has now been...
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Easy Audit Index Changes
In the previous article, I showed a somewhat elaborate method that could be used should there be a need to audit changes to your indexes. As I learned many years ago in school, the elaborate or...
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Creative Extended Event Sessions
In the previous article, I showed how to take advantage of collations to add more unique and interesting names to databases. In that article, I alluded to the better collation to use but failed to be...
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Creative XE Sessions – Funky Data
In the previous article, I explored the opportunity of using special characters (or emojis) within Extended Event Sessions. Creating a session with these characters in the name is not terribly...
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PowerShell to Backup XE Session
Quite some time ago, I shared a few articles that peeled back the top layer of how to use PowerShell (PoSh) with Extended Events (XEvents). Among those articles, I showed how to retrieve the metadata,...
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Trace Query in Extended Events
Tracing a query is a common task for a DBA. The methods employed are pretty varied. I seem to encounter a new method here and there throughout my journeys and projects. One method is surprisingly easy...
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Window Shopping the Query Store with XEvents
TSQL Tuesday The weather is starting to warm and Spring is upon us. It feels like a great time to take a stroll outside in the warming sun and maybe do a little window shopping on our way to the March...
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Collation Conflict with Extended Events
Have you ever run into an error like this? Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “pick a collation” and “pick another collation” in the equal to operation. This kind of error seems pretty...
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Audit Logons with Extended Events
Some time ago, I wrote an article for SQL Server 2008 to help determine the use of the server since SQL Server 2008 was reaching End Of Life. In that article, I shared a reasonable use of server side...
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