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Performance Monitoring Tools Compilation
Reading some blogs this morning, I found this article on SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tools. The only product I see that they are missing is Red Gate’s offering, which I personally use. But this...
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SQL Nexus, More Quirkiness
As we continue our SQL Nexus journey, there are a few light things I would like to point out before the long holiday weekend. We will rejoin this journey probably next week after Memorial Day. The...
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SQL Nexus, Adding Additional Collection Events
As we continue our SQL Nexus journey, I would like to point out something interesting that I learned from reading the SQL Nexus chapter in the race car book (aka Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals...
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SQL Nexus, Quirkiness Continued
SQL Nexus Report Options As we continue our SQL Nexus journey, we continue to point out some quirkiness in the amazingly useful SQL Nexus tool. One of the items in the Reports section that I find...
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SQL Nexus, Quirkiness Workaround
SQL Nexus Report Options Yesterday, I wrote about the “Realtime – Server Status” report quirkiness where essentially the report does not work when you import SQL Server 2008 data and essentially it...
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SQL Nexus, Perf Stats Report
2005 Perf Stats Report for 2008 Data Continuing our SQL Nexus journey, I noticed another item with the Perf Stats reports. As I mentioned in a previous post, I imported SQL Server 2008 R2 data into...
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Master Maintenance Plan, Part One
For the last two days, in between other tasks, I have been kicking around ideas to organize or reorganize scheduled jobs and maintenance plans into a grander scheme solution that sends me ONE e-mail a...
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Using the Right Tool
My week has been spent deep diving with the OpNet AppInternals Xpert and AppResponse console to learn some more valuable troubleshooting skills for our servers and applications that we administer...
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Deadlock Graphs
Last night I learned about graphical deadlock graphs from Fargham Butt of Microsoft. I had simply used the traceflag and then read the error logs to find the information. Thus today I thought I...
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