The AlwaysOn_health event session in Extended Events is intended to make analyzing problems with Availability Groups possible after they have occurred. While this event session
At some point in your career working with SQL Server, you will run into a situation where the wrong edition of SQL Server has been
The SSMS Availability Group addin I wrote a few years back for SQL Server 2012 has been updated and released with SSMS 2014 support available.
I’ve been doing a bit of work on Service Broker while building a series of new Pluralsight courses and one of the things I recently
During a recent client engagement to look at the performance problems of a production SQL Server I ran into something I hoped to never see
Have you ever wanted to play with a multi-subnet SQL Server configuration for Availability Groups or Failover Clustering with SQL Server 2012 or higher? Getting
This week Paul, Kimberly, Erin, and Tim are at SQLIntersection in Arizona presenting, and one of the best things about presenting at conferences is the
I’ve had so many questions about the same problem with the ring_buffer target in Extended Events lately that I figured I would write a blog
Last week someone sent Kimberly an email asking what the read_microsec column in the sys.dm_os_buffer_descriptors DMV in SQL Server 2012 showed. The email was passed
A few months back I received an email from a member of the community that was trying to filter the sqlos.wait_info event for some of
A question came up in class today about the difference between SQL Trace and Extended Events for logging information to the ERRORLOG file. Joe and
Back in July I blogged about the SQL Server 2012 Extended Events Add-in to Manage 2008/R2 Instances. Unfortunately, despite having multiple beta testers using the
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