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Using the built-in System Health session

WebUsing the built-in System Health session. August 1, 2018 ~ Matthew McGiffen. When Microsoft introduced Extended Events (XE) in 2008, they also gave us a …

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Extended Events Made Easy: Using XEvent Profiler

WebSeptember 25, 2018 ~ Matthew McGiffen. In this post we’ll look at how quick and easy it is to use the XEvent Profiler to create an Extended Events (XE) session to replace the …

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Extended Events Made Easy – Sorting, Grouping and Aggregation

WebThe number on the right of each one is the count of events in that group. Now I can add some aggregations. After grouping I still can see the original column headings …

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Exporting Extended Events Session Data to a Table

WebOnce you’ve opened the session to view the data you get an extra drop-down menu “Extended Events” on the menu bar in SSMS. If you open that and browse down, …

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August 2018 Matthew McGiffen Data

Web2 posts published by Matthew McGiffen during August 2018. If you’re a long time Profiler user like me then you probably often take the option of saving (or loading) your trace …

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October 2018 Matthew McGiffen Data

Web3 posts published by Matthew McGiffen during October 2018. When I’m using Profiler to analyse performance issues I often save the results to a table, or upload a …

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Using the built-in System Health session Matthew McGiffen Data

WebWhen Microsoft introduced Extended Events (XE) in 2008, they also gave us a built-in XE session called system_health (though it's worth noting that in 2008 MS …

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Extended Events Made Easy – Sorting, Grouping and Aggregation

WebWhen I’m using Profiler to analyse performance issues I often save the results to a table, or upload a trace file into a table, so that I can analyse the data. Often …

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There’s Still a Place for SQL Server Profiler

WebFollow a few of the SQL Family on Twitter and you’ll mostly see one view regards SQL Profiler, and it’s not generally friendly. So much so that I’ve been tempted …

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Extended Events Made Easy: Using XEvent Profiler

WebIn this post we’ll look at how quick and easy it is to use the XEvent Profiler to create an Extended Events (XE) session to replace the most common usage of SQL …

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Encryption and Data Protection Regulation

WebDecember 7, 2022 ~ Matthew McGiffen. One of the reasons you may be considering encryption is due to the relevant data protection regulation: either because the regulation …

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WebWhen you drop a database from a SQL Server instance the underlying files are usually removed. This doesn’t happen however if you set the database to be offline …

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WebSQL Server has had the native ability to encrypt data since SQL Server 2005. This included functionality that could be used to encrypt individual items and columns of data as well …

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Uncategorized Matthew McGiffen Data

WebHuge thanks to everyone who responded to my invitation to blog on Encryption and Data Protection for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. I got what I hoped for, which was a wide(ish) …

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SQL General Archives

WebIf you’re a long time Profiler user like me then you probably often take the option of saving (or loading) your trace results to a table for easy analysis.

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There’s Still a Place for SQL Server Profiler

WebFollow a few of the SQL Family on Twitter and you’ll mostly see one view regards SQL Profiler, and it’s not generally friendly. So much so that I’ve been tempted …

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SQL General – Matthew McGiffen Data

WebHaving up to date statistics is vital for getting the best performance out of your queries. Even though SQL Server automatically updates statistics in the background for you, you may …

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December 2022 Matthew McGiffen Data

Web6 posts published by Matthew McGiffen during December 2022. When you first look at the encryption hierarchy for TDE in SQL Server it can be a bit daunting.

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