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The Zombie PerfMon Counters That Never Die!
One of the things that's simultaneously great and horrible about the Internet is that, once something gets posted out in the ether, it basically never goes away. (Some day, politicians will realize...
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Over the last year I’ve blogged several times on SQLPerformance.com about transaction log performance issues (see here) and I promised to discuss transaction log monitoring, which I’ll do in this post....
View ArticleTracking Automatic Updates to Statistics
When you create a new database in SQL Server, the Auto Update Statistics option is enabled by default. It is generally recommended to leave this option enabled. Ideally, statistics are managed by a...
View ArticleThree Easy SQL Server Performance Wins
As any veteran production DBA knows, you are often under significant pressure to diagnose and alleviate database performance issues as quickly as possible. Here are three things you might be able take...
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Analyzing "death by a thousand cuts" workloads
There are multiple methods to look at poorly performing queries in SQL Server, notably Query Store, Extended Events, and dynamic management views (DMVs). Each option has pros and cons. Extended Events...
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