Top 3 Easy Help Queries for XEvents in Azure SQL

These are a few simple queries to help you along your way to becoming better acquainted w/ XEvents in Azure SQL. These queries will make XEvents easier for you!

How to Find SQL Server Configuration Manager

SSCM likes to disappear from time to time. When it does, what is your backup plan? This article shows how not to be fooled by the vanishing act of SSCM.

Powerful Monitoring for Your Linked Servers with XEvents

Linked Servers can certainly provide an enigma to your finely tuned Database environment. In this article, I share how to decrypt that enigma via XEvents.

Easy Monitoring: Application Timeouts in SQL Server with XEvents

Application timeouts can be surprising little problems causing grey hairs. Never fear, this article with the XEvents session I shared are the perfect solution.

Firewall Ports You Need to Open for Availability Groups

This article has demonstrated a meaningful and efficient method to test and validate the necessary firewall ports for Availability Groups (AG) and WFC.

How to Easily Grant Permissions to all Databases

This article demonstrates one method to grant READ access to all DBs while still keeping the environment secure & hitting that chord of doing it efficiently.

Time to Set Service Dependencies for SQL Server, it’s Easy

In this article, I share one easy script that could help eliminate one database feature as a culprit to an anomalous data masking suddenly getting enabled.

Simple Method to Add A Network in SQL Configuration Manager

In this article I have demonstrated a fairly simple method to help you modify your network adapters that are presented to SQL Server.

How To Resolve User Error in Kerberos Configuration Manager

This article shows a problem with one of my favorite tools – Kerberos Configuration Manager. This tool provides a lot of power in resolving SPN related issues.