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 | Oct 2, 2018 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Query Data Store, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Tools, Uncategorized
While at a customer today I was given an interesting question. The individual was writing reports and needed to have right-justified, zero padded fields. He was investigating the FORMAT function which was introduced in SQL Server 2012. He had heard some mumblings that...
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....
by bobtaylor29708 | Jul 30, 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™, XE Profiler
In this SQL Snack™ I will examine the three remaining targets (I don’t plan on covering the ETW sync target as it is out of scope for this series). The counter, histogram and pair matching targets are very simple and straight forward to use and consume. In the...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jul 23, 2018 | Azure SQL Database, boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Snacks™
In this SQL Snacks™ we will examine the techniques required to implement the file target for an Azure SQL Database. We will also examine the differences in the Extended Event system between on premises and Azure SQL Database. The link with the instructions for...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jul 23, 2018 | Azure SQL Database, boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Snacks™
In this SQL Snacks™ we will examine the event file target. Along the way we will unlock the magic of the Extended Event viewer UI in SQL Server Management Studio. Again this is longer than most SQL Snacks™ so the video will be in two parts. In the companion SQL...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jul 16, 2018 | boB 'The Tool Man' Taylor, Extended Events, SQL Meals™, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017
In this SQL Snacks™ we will examine the Ring Buffer Extended Event target. Arguably the most flexible of the targets (despite a few of its shortfalls) we will use it to start the examination of the suite of targets available to us. In a future SQL Snacks™ we will...
by bobtaylor29708 | Jul 12, 2018 | SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SqlCommandFilter, Tools, Uncategorized
Thanks to reader EricEJ I have added an extension method to SqlCommandFilters which means instead of coding the call like this [csharp] // Explicit usage SqlCommandFilters.Parameters.Parameterize(ref cmd); // you can now call it like this // Extension method on...
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