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System Health Session: Part 4
This is the last post for the System Health Session series. In this post, I shall show you how to …Continue reading »
View ArticleInvitation for T-SQL Tuesday #20 – T-SQL Best Practices
What is T-SQL Tuesday? T-SQL Tuesday is the brain-child of MVP Adam Machanic (blog|twitter). It happens once a month on the 2nd Tuesday and is hosted by a different person in the SQL community each...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #20 Wrap-up and a few smiles
I had the privilege of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday which is a recurring blog party, the brainchild of MVP Adam Machanic (blog|twitter). It goes without saying that the posts this time were a...
View ArticleSystem Health Session: Part 1
SQL Server 2008 introduced a new feature called Extended Events which opened a new vista for troubleshooting SQL Server issues. Bob Ward in a post on the CSS SQL Server Engineers blog had written about...
View ArticleSystem Health Session: Part 2
I had written an introductory post on monitoring the system health using the default extended events sessions that runs on a SQL Server 2008 instance and above. Now it is time for next part for this...
View ArticleSystem Health Session: Part 3
In my last post, I had demonstrated how to fetch the waits information captured by the System Health session. In this post, I shall show the custom reports that can be built using the waits information...
View ArticleMissing indexes and Create Index command from the procedure cache
Recently I was working on a performance issue for SQL Server where I needed to identify the missing indexes on the database instance. This was quite easy since I have a T-SQL script to do this which I...
View ArticleSQL Feature Discovery Script
As part of my work, I very frequently have to collect information about the various database engine features that are currently being used on a particular SQL Server instance. Sometimes, this requires...
View ArticleSystem Health Session and Deadlocks
I had blogged about retrieving deadlock related information using the default Extended Event session which runs by default on all SQL Server 2008 instances and above. However, once you have retrieved...
View ArticleEnabling Transactional Replication: A bit of help
Over the past few months, I have discussed the feasibility of enabling transaction replication for customer databases on various occasions. Every time I end up writing queries to answer certain...
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