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• An XEvent a Day (8 of 31) – Targets Week – synchronous_event_counter

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Yesterday’s post, Targets Week - Bucketizers , looked at the bucketizer Targets in Extended Events and how they can be used to simplify analysis and perform more targeted analysis based on their output.  Today’s post will be fairly short, by comparison to the previous posts, while we look at the synchronous_event_counter target, which can be…

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• An XEvent a Day (1 of 31) – An Overview of Extended Events

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  First introduced in SQL Server 2008, Extended Events provided a new mechanism for capturing information about events inside the Database Engine that was both highly performant and highly configurable. Designed from the ground up with performance as a primary focus, Extended Events may seem a bit odd at first look, especially when you compare it…

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• An XEvent a Day (6 of 31) – Targets Week – asynchronous_file_target

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Yesterday’s post, Targets Week - ring_buffer , looked at the ring_buffer Target in Extended Events and how it outputs the raw Event data in an XML document.  Today I’m going to go over the details of the other Target in Extended Events that captures raw Event data, the asynchronous_file_target. What is the asynchronous_file_target? The…

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• An XEvent a Day (2 of 31) – Querying the Extended Events Metadata

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  In yesterdays post, An Overview of Extended Events , I provided some of the necessary background for Extended Events that you need to understand to begin working with Extended Events in SQL Server. After receiving some feedback by email (thanks Aaron I appreciate it), I have changed the post naming convention associated with the post to…

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• Reinventing the Wheel – Automating Data Consistency Checks with Powershell

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  When I started in my current position at the beginning of the year, one of the first things that I did was to schedule a sit down with the various teams of Analysts that exist in our organization to find out more about their systems.  One thing I am always interested in is the manual processes that people do routinely that might be…

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• An XEvent a Day (7 of 31) – Targets Week – bucketizers

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Yesterday’s post, Targets Week - asynchronous_file_target , looked at the asynchronous_file_target Target in Extended Events and how it outputs the raw Event data in an XML document. Continuing with Targets week today, we’ll look at the bucketizer targets in Extended Events which can be used to group Events based on the Event data that…

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• gl_PointCoord always zero

  - by Jonathan

  I am trying to draw point sprites in OpenGL with a shader but gl_PointCoord is always zero. Here is my code Setup: //Shader creation..(includes glBindAttribLocation(program, ATTRIB_P, "p");) glEnableVertexAttribArray(ATTRIB_P); In the rendering loop: glUseProgram(shader_particles); float vertices[]={0.0f,0.0f,0.0f};…

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• Reinventing the Wheel – Automating Data Consistency Checks with Powershell

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  When I started in my current position at the beginning of the year, one of the first things that I did was to schedule a sit down with the various teams of Analysts that exist in our organization to find out more about their systems.  One thing I am always interested in is the manual processes that people do…

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• An XEvent a Day (9 of 31) – Targets Week – pair_matching

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Yesterday’s post, Targets Week – synchronous_event_counter , looked at the counter Target in Extended Events and how it could be used to determine the number of Events a Event Session will generate without actually incurring the cost to collect and store the Events.  Today’s post is coming late, I know, but…

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• Don’t just P2V that server for Testing!

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  If you use virtualization in your company, at some point in time you might be tempted to perform a Physical-To-Virtual conversion, also known as P2V.  The ability to create a complete working copy of a physical server as a virtual machine is really useful for migrating to a virtualized datacenter, but it…

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• An XEvent a Day (20 of 31) – Mapping Extended Events to SQL Trace

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  One of the biggest problems that I had with getting into Extended Events was mapping the Events available in Extended Events to the Events that I knew from SQL Trace. With so many Events to choose from in Extended Events, and a different organization of the Events, it is really easy to get lost when trying to…

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• An XEvent a Day (27 of 31) – The Future - Tracking Page Splits in SQL Server Denali CTP1

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Nearly two years ago Kalen Delaney blogged about Splitting a page into multiple pages , showing how page splits occur inside of SQL Server.  Following her blog post, Michael Zilberstein wrote a post, Monitoring Page Splits with Extended Events , that showed how to see the sqlserver.page_split Events…

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• Making Use of Plan Explorer in my own Environment

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Back in October 2010, I briefly blogged about the SQL Sentry Plan Explorer in my blog post wrap up for SQL Bits 7 and how impressed I was with what I saw from a Alpha demo standpoint from Greg Gonzalez ( Blog | Twitter ) while I was at SQLBits 7 in York.  To be 100% honest and transparent, Greg gave…

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• Some thoughts on the Virtualization Feedback in the SSWUG Newsletters

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Last Thursday, March 25, 2010, the topic of Virtualization of SQL Server came up in the SSWUG Newsletter , with Steven Wynkoop asking if peoples perceptions and experiences have changed since the last time he covered virtualizing SQL Server.  I unfortunately missed the last coverage of this topic,…

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• Some thoughts on the Virtualization Feedback in the SSWUG Newsletters

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Last Thursday, March 25, 2010, the topic of Virtualization of SQL Server came up in the SSWUG Newsletter , with Steven Wynkoop asking if peoples perceptions and experiences have changed since the last time he covered virtualizing SQL Server.  I unfortunately missed the last coverage of this topic,…

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• SQL Server Installation Checklist

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  The other night I was asked on Twitter by Todd McDonald (Twitter), for a build list for SQL Server 2005 and 2008.  My initial response was to provide a link to the SQL Server Build List Blog , which documents all of the builds of SQL Server and provides links to the KB articles associated with the…

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• Times they are a changing…

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  If you follow me on twitter ( @SQLSarg ), you already know that this has been a week of big announcements for me. Wednesday afternoon Paul Randal ( Blog | Twitter ) announced that I joined SQLskills.com as a full time employee, and Thursday afternoon, Joe Sack ( Blog | Twitter ) announced that I passed…

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• Site Icon Hash in stackauth.com/sites

  - by Jonathan

  How do I cache the images properly, I think asked this somewhere before, but it hasn't affected me until gameing site went out of beta. It's HTTP headers or something isn't Ok I used George's answer but frankly the performance is awful, asking the server for the image everytime (even when it…

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• Want to know how SQL Server logging works?

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Have you ever wondered why SQL Server logging works the way it does?  While I have long understood the importance behind the SQL Server Transaction Log, I have never actually understood exactly why it works the way it does, despite having attended Paul Randal’s ( Blog / Twitter ) session at…

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• Making Use of Plan Explorer in my own Environment

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  Back in October 2010, I briefly blogged about the SQL Sentry Plan Explorer in my blog post wrap up for SQL Bits 7 and how impressed I was with what I saw from a Alpha demo standpoint from Greg Gonzalez ( Blog | Twitter ) while I was at SQLBits 7 in York.  To be 100% honest and transparent,…

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• ID number for sites [closed]

  - by Jonathan

  Possible Duplicate: please add a key fields to stackauth results It would be easier if sites each had an ID, it help with keeping track of them, not only in a numerical way (which is generally easier and smaller than using name strings). Also changes of site names (such as when a site…

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• Today’s Performance Tip: Views are for Convenience, Not Performance!

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  I tweeted this last week on twitter and got a lot of retweets so I thought that I’d blog the story behind the tweet. Most vendor databases have views in them, and when people want to retrieve data from a database, it seems like the most common first stop they make are the vendor supplied…

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• Working with Sub-Optimal Disk Configurations (Making the best of what you’ve got)

  - by Jonathan Kehayias

  This is the first post in a what will be a series of posts on working with a sub-optimal disk configuration to squeeze as much performance out of it as possible.  You might ask what a Sub-Optimal Disk Configuration?  In this case it is a Dell Powervault MD3000 with 15 Seagate…

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• What are your suggestions on learning how to think?

  - by Jonathan Khoo

  First of all, this is not the generic 'make me a better programmer' question, even though the outcome of asking this question might seem similar to it. On programmers.SE, I've read and seen these get closed here, here, here, here, and here. We all know there are a multitude of generic…

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• iStack for iPad

  - by Jonathan

  The below image is the current, and hopefully final, look of the front screen, the app will remember which stack site you have chosen so the user will only see this screen the first time, but they can always go back and change it. The red bar is only there when a new site is added…

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