Do you have ever heard about an “Event-Less” Extended Event Session? What is the idea about it? Why do you want to have an Extended Event Session without any events? Let’s talk about it… Event Less When you create an Extended Event Session in SQL Server, the definition of the Event Session specifies which Events, …
In today’s blog posting I want to talk about a very interesting topic: in which execution state is a query waiting on “something”? By definition we can all agree that a query always waits in the SUSPENDED state. But this behavior is not really true. So let’s talk about it… Query Life Cycle Every time …
Does a Query always wait in the SUSPENDED State? + read more
Today’s blog posting is a quite interesting one, because I want to show you a concrete example where in an Actual Execution Plan the Actual Number of Rows are WRONG! Yes, you have read correctly: I’m talking here about the Actual Number of Rows, and not about the Estimated Number of Rows, which are always …
Today I want to announce my SQLpassion Online Training for June 2018. On June 21, 2018 I’m running a one-day long webinar about SQL Server Troubleshooting with Extended Events. And because of the huge success of my brand new training Design, Deploy, and Optimize SQL Server on VMware, I will rerun that training again from …
A few days ago I have replaced in my vSAN enabled vSphere Cluster an ESXi Host in preparation for the upcoming migration to vSphere 6.7. As you know from my Home Lab deployment, my vSAN Compute Cluster consists of 3 HP Proliant Hosts: esx1.sqlpassion.com: HP DL380 G8 with Intel Xeon E5-2650 CPUs esx2.sqlpassion.com: HP DL380 …
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