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Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

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Who are these scripts for? You need to troubleshoot performance problems with SQL Server, and you need to do it now. You don't have time to track down a bunch of DMVs, figure out Extended Events, ...

Understanding what SQL Server is currently doing can be quite challenging, especially if you are not a database administrator. Besides identifying which queries are being executed, you can also ...

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

A Java-based SQL Server Profiler tool that monitors and analyzes SQL Server database activities, referencing the .NET project ExpressProfiler. emp-sqlserver-profiler is a lightweight, cross-platform ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

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