One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It’s not relational and often brings nightmares of parsing and performance issues.
Category: SSC
Compressing Outcomes
Find yourself struggling to determine the outcome of attempted compression settings in your database? This should help!
Tables, Columns and Defaults Oh My!
The joys of inheriting a new database and being thrown into the fire to quickly assimilate as much information about the database as possible can be troublesome. This script will help with that!
Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a large database backup file, that is encrypted, be much smaller.
What is DBCC?
What is really mean by DBCC and what do people mean when they say DBCC?
HealthySQL – A Review
A quick look into the book by Robert Pearl: Healthy SQL.
Table Size Script Update for 2015
Newest update to the script to help discover and track object sizes within a database.
Internal Tables and Space Used
Some of the beauty of SQL Server is the complexity that it holds. Some of that complexity is right before our eyes. And some of that requires a little bit of diving into the internals to figure out what is happening or even why it is complex.
What’s the Size of that Index?
When you need to figure out how indexes are contributing to the overall size of a table within a database, this script will help you!
Extended Events Removed from 2016
Extended Events continue to grow and improve – even with the removal of a few events.