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The Goat is Out! (Solving Problems, the Hard Way)

July 13, 2023 by Ryan

Years ago I read a blog post by Mike Walsh from StraightPath Solutions called You are Free: Career Lessons from a farm fence. At the time I was struggling with my role at work and an increasing desire to be more involved with the database community. This blog post lit a fire and encouraged me … Read more

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Long-Running Query Alerts With sp_WhoIsActive

October 19, 2017October 17, 2017 by Ryan

Who doesn’t love sp_WhoIsActive? Nearly every single DBA talk I have attended in the last two years mentions as a “must have!” I do the same during my DBA Newbie talk at SQL Saturdays. About 18 months ago I came across this post by Tara Kizer and started logging activity every 30 seconds on most … Read more

Categories Monitoring, SQL Server Tags Long-Running Queries, sp_WhoIsActive 4 Comments

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