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This is a very simple introduction into the creation of an Extended Event session using a template for Azure SQL DB. I demonstrate the use of the GUI to configure the session quickly and then to subsequently script that configuration before creating the session.
Having a Database Owner is not something that most people think about until something breaks. Usually, people will just kind of ignore it because it is just so innocuous and uncommon for the owner to not be “present”.
Excessive memory grants are extremely problematic in SQL Server. These excessive grants do not just happen out of the blue. Memory grants are directly linked to the queries.
Queries will fail. That is as inevitable as death and taxes. This article demonstrates how to find some truly horrible queries.
This article demonstrates a more comprehensive method to audit changes to statistics. This method involves the use of Extended Events.