CPU Ready Time in VMware and How to Interpret its Real Meaning
(If you’re having persistent problems with your virtual machine configurations and SQL Server performance, Jonathan can help you fix it – fast! Click here for
(If you’re having persistent problems with your virtual machine configurations and SQL Server performance, Jonathan can help you fix it – fast! Click here for
Recently there was lengthy discussion on the #sqlhelp hash tag on Twitter about clustering SQL Server on VMs and whether or not that was a
My latest article on SQL Server Central was published live today. This article shows how to use Event Notifications to monitor and alert on database
This blog post is courtesy of a question I received from Chris Adkin (Twitter) by email. Chris was trying to use Extended Events to track
If you don’t already know it, I love query the plan cache in SQL Server to identify problems that might exist in a server. I’ve
This topic came up on a forum post recently, and after responding a couple of times to the thread I had to jump into one
In my last blog post, I provided a script that queried the XML for the resource monitor ring buffer entries in sys.dm_os_ring_buffers to identify when
Properly configuring SQL Server is an important factor in having a stable environment that performs well. While there is a lot of good guidance available
I’ve been asked questions about these two features a number of times in the last year where the specific concepts for them have been severely
The sqlserver.sql_text action in Extended Events is one of the worst named objects in Extended Events. The name suggests that you are going to get
Traditionally questions about how much memory SQL Server needs were aimed at how to appropriately set the ‘max server memory’ sp_configure option in SQL Server,
SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 provides a new set of Events in Extended Events to collect performance counter data from the Windows OS
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