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To AutoGrow or not?
Note: This is a repost of an older blog by Sean that’s still applicable. We’ve updated it with a note or two on how Minion Backup – our free backup solution – and Minion Enterprise – our management...
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What is DBCC?
If I ask you what is DBCC, what would your answer be?I want you to think about that one for just a little bit. What comes to mind when you hear DBCC? Is it the default go-to used when talking about...
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HealthySQL – A Review
How well do you know the health of your SQL Servers and databases? Ever wonder about the current health or even what the health was like a few months back? Sure, one could anecdotally say the databases...
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Assigned reading: FREEPROCCACHE
I don’t often find myself blogging for the sole purpose of showing you someone else’s blog, but today is one of those days. I’d like you to read Grant Fritchey’s excellent piece, “Targeted Plan Cache...
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Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It’s not relational and often brings nightmares of parsing and performance...
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I am not a “wogrammer”
So apparently the COO of Facebook is trying to make the word “wogrammer” – a woman programmer – a thing. (Thanks to Vicky Harp for pointing out this infuriating thing.) I cannot stress how...
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Time for T-SQL Tuesday #70!
Here is your invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #70, and the topic is: Strategies for managing an enterprise We define “enterprise” in a number of ways, but I tend to default to two definitions: “the things...
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Shredding Extended Event Actions
The other day I wrote about that torrid love/hate relationship DBAs tend to have with working with XML. In that same post, I promised I would have a follow up post about XML in Extended Events.Well,...
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XEvent Session Supporting Cast
So far, in this series, I have discussed the means to view the metadata associated with Extended Events. I also demonstrated some quick and simple means to retrieve some metadata via the catalog views...
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Extended Events Packages
Today, I continue on with exploring some of the metadata concerning Extended Events. To date, I have explored various aspects of session metadata whether the session is running or stopped. Today, I...
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Learning Extended Events in 60 Days
This post will serve as the landing page for a series I am calling 60 Days of Extended Events. The purpose of these posts will be to help somebody progress through the Extended Events Concepts and...
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Extended Events Categories
I recently delved into a brief explanation of Packages as they correlate to Extended Events. In that article, I left a couple of things un-said about packages – leaving them for this article.Packages...
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PASS Summit 2015: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #Summit15)
The last week of October, we’ll be at the PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. As some of you already know – and as I said last year – “this is the highlight of most SQL Server speakers’ years…a sort of...
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The #TSQL2sday #70 roundup
Time for the T-SQL Tuesday #70 roundup! I asked people for their best enterprise management strategies, and they responded beautifully. Here we go. Rob Farley : Superhero powers for managing the...
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Extended Events – Event Anatomy
So far in these brief discussions about Extended Events, I have covered several core concepts including a basic introduction into what an Event is within Extended Events. For a recap on those articles,...
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Extended Events and Fixed Schemas
Working with databases, XML, and many software applications, it is not uncommon to deal with fixed schemas. In the database world, it is fairly fundamental to have some sort of schema. The schema...
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Storing Event Data
Among the several core concepts of Extended Events is the concept of storing event payloads / data. When an event fires, it would not be far-fetched to want to be able to review that data at some time...
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SQL Saturday San Diego tomorrow! (September 18)
This weekend we’re going to hit SQL Saturday San Diego for the first time ever! We are the excited. Come and see us at our MinionWare booth (yes we’re vendors woooo!!), and at our sessions and...
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Comparison Predicates and Event Data
In the previous installment, I began covering the topic of predicates. In that article I demonstrated that there are multiple types of predicates. There are two objects that fall into the predicate...
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Freecon – Oct 27 in Seattle
Just over a week ago I announced that SQL Solutions Group was getting ready to host a day of training, FREECON if you will, in Seattle as a prelude to the PASS Summit of 2015. You can read all about...
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