Is the sp_ prefix still a no-no?
In the SQL Server world, there are two types of people: those who like all of their objects to be prefixed, and those who don’t. The former group is further divided into two categories: those who...
View ArticleMeasuring “Observer Overhead” of SQL Trace vs. Extended Events
SQL Server offers two methods of collecting diagnostic and troubleshooting data about the workload executed against the server: SQL Trace and Extended Events. Starting in SQL Server 2012, the Extended...
View ArticleBeware misleading data from SET STATISTICS IO
My co-worker Steve Wright (blog | @SQL_Steve) prodded me with a question recently on a strange result he was seeing. In order to test some functionality in our latest tool, SQL Sentry Plan Explorer...
View ArticleObserver Overhead and Wait Type Symptoms
Joe Sack (@josephsack) of SQLskills.com shows us that we might not always be able to make an accurate correlation between wait statistics and observer overhead, depending on the method being used to...
View ArticleDude, who owns that #temp table?
You have probably been in a scenario where you were curious about who created a specific copy of a #temp table. Back in June of 2007, I asked for a DMV to map #temp tables to sessions, but this was...
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