Extended Events have been part of SQL Server since 2008. In this article, Ed Pollack explains the building blocks of Extended Events data collection.… Read more
Many DBA skills transfer when moving to the cloud, but you'll have to make some adjustments in many cases. In this post, Dennes Torres explains one of the differences when setting up Extended Events sessions in Azure SQL Database.… Read more
One of the most obvious bottlenecks in the performance of tempdb is caused by PAGELATCH, in-memory latch contention on the allocation bitmap of each data file used. We can use one of the rules-of-thumb to choose what should be roughly the best number of files, but how then do you check to see whether you've got it right for your data and workload?… Read more