Extended Events – I am dangerous (sometimes)

I did a dangerous thing, and I want to make sure that YOU DO NOT do the same.

I was creating a couple of extended events sessions and was playing around with some actions. I ended up with the following code where I was after a guy called Shane:

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Adaptive Query Processing – Interleaved Execution

A quick blog post to start the day, If you remember a few months ago I blogged about SQL Server vNext https://blobeater.blog/2017/02/03/sql-server-vnext/, more specifically around the Adaptive Query Processing feature.

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TDE: Looking inside your backups

TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) encrypts the data files at rest but don’t forget that it also encrypts your backup file too. I fancied looking inside a backup of my database before enabling TDE and comparing it to when enabled.

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SQL Server Target vs Total Memory

For this blog post I want to discuss the meaning behind SQL Server: Memory Manager\Target Server Memory (KB) and SQL Server: Memory Manager \Total memory (KB) Perfmon counters.  I will mention how under different situations and configuration settings their behaviour changes.

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