SQL Server Profiler–or just Profiler– is a tool that can help monitor all the queries that are being run on your DATABASE. This allows you to see a lot of information including ‘CPU time’, Reads, ...

SQL Profiler is a great tool that allows you to see what’s going on inside SQL Server. You can find out what your worst performing queries are, how often a query is executed etc. To implement best ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or ...

Power BI Desktop comes with an in-built Performance Analyzer to examine performance and DAX queries. However, there’s no equivalent tool to monitor performance or obtain DAX queries once the report is ...

The much-used Microsoft SQL Profiler is a tool headed toward obsolescence. What options are available once the tool is deprecated? We examine SQL Server Extended Events as a possibility. The ...

In an earlier blog I talked about the difference in mentality between the typical developer and the typical DBA. One of the characteristics of the DBA is the distrust of the Microsoft Wizards. “Give ...

One of the dreaded error codes we get in the SQL log is the “1205”. It represents the infamous deadlock where two transactions are locking each other out. No way ...