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. What's not to love? But use cases for the view are a topic for another post. Today I want to ...

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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 last year I estimate that I have invested at least a couple of hundred hours in the script. The ...