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Audit Domain Group and User Permissions
No matter how simple the task or how versed we are with doing a security audit, it seems like we can always stand to learn just a little bit more. No matter how many times we hand an audit report over...
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An Introduction to Templates
Templates are a powerful tool in so many trades and crafts. From decals and stickers all the way up to the largest cruise ships in the world, templates can be found everywhere in just about everything...
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Correlate SQL Trace and Actions
I have recently written about the pains of correlating SQL Trace events to Extended Events (XE) events. That article can be found here. At that time, I did not dive into another facet of trace that...
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Dynamics AX Event Session
Many moons ago, I wrote about how to enable the context info for Dynamics AX. Having the context info enabled is a pretty important thing when dealing with Dynamics AX. The amount of time you can save...
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Sharepoint Diagnostics and XE
One of the all-time greatest and most beloved applications among DBAs happens to be Sharepoint. Most of us would be lying if we said that we loved Sharepoint and the kind of performance issues it can...
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Checking the Health of your CLR
The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the fundamental nerve center of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is this nerve center that provides the execution environment for all .NET Framework code. One may...
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Profiler for Extended Events: Quick Settings
Not long ago, I wrote a rather long article about a new-ish feature within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) that impacted Extended Events. You can read that book – here! The XEvents Profiler feature...
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Extended Events File Initialization Failure
It should come as no surprise that I write a lot of articles about Extended Events (XE). This happens to be another article on Extended Events. Truth be told, this article is hopefully something that...
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Monitor Database Offline Events
The other day, I shared an article showing how to audit database offline events via the default trace. Today, I will show an easier method to both audit and monitor for offline events. What is the...
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How Long is That Event Taking
Knowing just how long an event takes is a common requirement when troubleshooting. Sometimes, figuring out the unit of time is a bit troublesome. Is it milliseconds, seconds or microseconds? It is...
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Azure Data Studio and XEvents
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is getting all sorts of love and attention these days. So much so that they have finally gotten around to adding Extended Events (XE) to the tool – sort of. Now we have the...
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Auditing when Database Files Change
As a Database Administrator, something that should be part of your database audit is monitoring the growth of files. That means tracking when the log file grows and tracking when the data file(s)...
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Capture the Flag – The Trace Flag
Many people work in a tightly controlled environment. Every change requires a change control form and approval to make a change. In some environments, things are more lax, but you still wish you could...
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The Mystery of Missing Backup Files
Yoink – Backups Gone Not only is this mystery of missing backup files worth discussing now, but has been a mystery worth talking about previously (albeit in slightly different form). One such...
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Quick and Easy XE for Azure DB
The Cloud It has been a minute since I gave much love or attention to Extended Events in Azure SQL DB. Things have changed a touch since then. We will see about some of those changes in a future...
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How To: XEvents as Profiler
A common excuse for not delving into extended events seems to be the jump from Profiler to extended events. There appears to be an inherent fear with how to use extended events. In addition to that...
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Upgrading From SQL Server Profiler
I just shared an article describing how to use Extended Events to perform your SQL Server Profiler duties. If not, you can read all about it here. In that article, I showed one common use-case for SQL...
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How to: File Target use in Extended Events
I have been doing a lot of posts of late about extended events but have failed to share some of the essential building blocks. I am not looking to do a series of definitions, but just share a couple...
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SQL Servers Black Box Recorder – Def Trace
Across many professions and industries there is often a need to have some sort of device that “audits” everything that happens with a device or process. We are probably all quite familiar with the...
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SQL Servers Black Box Recorder – system_health
Yesterday i shared the first article in a three part series about the SQL Black Box Recorder, that you can read here, with a promise of at least two more posts. The first article in the series laid...
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