Adam Machanic, Boston-based independent database consultant, writer, and speaker, shares his experiences with programming, performance tuning, and optimizing SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008, in conjunction with related technologies such as .NET.
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The sys.dm_exec_query_stats view is one of my favorite DMVs. It has replaced a large chunk of what I used to use SQL Trace for--pulling metrics about what queries are running and how often--and it makes this kind of data collection painless and automatic. Read More...
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UPDATE, April 28 2011: Who is Active v9.57 is outdated. Please use v11.00 instead. Happy December, SQLblog readers! My gift to you, just in time for the holidays: The newest "official" release of your favorite SQL Server activity monitoring stored procedure Read More...
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I've had a lot of great feedback since my last "official" Who is Active? release-- v8.40, back in March --and since then I've made 42 distinct changes, bringing us all the way to v8.82. My versioning scheme is quite simple: one change, one increment, Read More...
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NOTE: v8.40 is outdated at this time. Please try v9.57, which you can find here . It has been only a month and a half since I posted the last version of Who is Active? ( v7.30 ), but in that time I've made a huge number of changes, fixes, and enhancements. Read More...
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Who is Active? is a comprehensive DMV-based monitoring script, designed to tell you at a glance what processes are active on your SQL Server and what they're up to. It has a number of optional features so that you can get results quickly, or monitor deeply, Read More...
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Last year on December 31 I posted part of a larger monitoring script that I had been working on for a few months . I received lots of great feedback on the little script in both the comments and from people I was working with, and over the course of the Read More...
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