by bobtaylor29708 | Jun 10, 2019 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Tools, SQL Snacks™, TDC
I was presenting at SQL Saturday 893 in Virginia Beach this weekend and when demonstrating the code I accidentally chose TailSpinToys-US database. It turns out that schema names do not like dashes. So I have checked in changes to both the TDC Wizard C# project and the...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jan 9, 2019 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, Power BI, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Tools, Tools
I had an interesting question from a customer that I am currently working with. They said, ‘In Azure SQL DB I can see the number of deadlocks very easily in a graphical manner – why can’t I do that on premises?’ I thought for a minute and a...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jan 9, 2019 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, Power BI, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Tools
With the retirement of the MSDN blog platform, I will now be blogging here at www.sqlbobt.com. If you are reading this, then you have already found me 🙂
by bobtaylor29708 | Aug 20, 2018 | Azure SQL Database, boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Tools, SQL Snacks™, Tools
Based on a request by Microsoft Test Consultant Robert George, this SQL Snacks™ along with a tool I am releasing to the community will allow you to run a Transact-SQL workload on Azure SQL Database, capture the xel files to Azure Blob Storage, and then process them to...
by bobtaylor29708 | Aug 13, 2018 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Tools, SQL Snacks™
In this short SQL Snacks™ we will look at a question that arose while I was at a customer site. While running load tests we were seeing abnormally high numbers of recompiles vs. compiles. Knowing that this could lead to higher CPU consumption we investigated. Thanks...
by bobtaylor29708 | Aug 6, 2018 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Snacks™
In this short SQL Snacks™ we will examine a feature introduced in SQL Server Management Studio V17.3 – namely the XE Profiler which will make our lives considerably easier when configuring XEvent capture for a test run....
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