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  • DBA Scripts: Get Active XE Sessions

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Extended Events & Tracing Extended Events sessions have a way of quietly accumulating on a busy instance. Someone stood up a trace for a specific investigation six months ago, and it’s still running, still writing files, and nobody remembers…

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  • DBA Scripts: Create SP Execution Session

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Extended Events & Tracing Query Store and the plan cache tell you what’s expensive. Neither tells you what’s actually called, by what, how often. Before a migration, you need to know which stored procedures matter in practice, not which…

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  • DBA Scripts: Create Decommission Audit Session

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Extended Events & Tracing “I think nothing uses this database anymore” is not evidence. It is a guess, and it is the kind of guess that turns into an incident report when the thing you dropped turns out to…

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  • DBA Scripts: Create Login Activity Session

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Extended Events & Tracing “Who actually connects to this server?” is a question you can’t answer from documentation. Not who’s supposed to connect, who is. Ownership changes, connection strings get copied into three other applications nobody told you about,…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get Heaps

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Maintenance & Automation › Index Maintenance Heaps in SQL Server Explained A surprising amount of SQL Server performance pain comes from tables that were never given a clustered index. These heaps often start life as quick prototypes, staging tables, or legacy leftovers, but…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get SQL Server Database File Details

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity Understanding SQL Server Database File Layout A disk alert has fired, or a log file has grown again, and you need to know which file it is, where it lives and whether anything stops it growing. The same questions come…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get Sysadmin Members

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Security Identify SQL Server Logins With Sysadmin Access The sysadmin fixed server role provides unrestricted access to a SQL Server instance. Members of this role can perform any operation on the server, including creating databases, changing security settings, accessing all data, and modifying…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get Database Sizes and Free Space

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity Get SQL Server Database Sizes and Free Space Database size checks are one of the first things I review when assessing a SQL Server environment. The goal is simple: understand where storage is being consumed, identify databases that need attention,…

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  • DBA Scripts: Get VLF Counts

    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Storage & Capacity VLFs – The Hidden Log Performance Problem Virtual Log File (VLF) count is one of those SQL Server health checks that is often overlooked. It rarely generates alerts, doesn’t usually slow down a single query, and most users never know…

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  • What’s New in SSMS 22 for DBAs

    🛠️Part of the SSMS Complete Guide, installing, configuring and fixing SQL Server Management Studio.Related pillar: Server & Configuration SQL Server Management Studio 22 is the current line, it sits on the Visual Studio 2026 shell, and it has been shipping updates roughly monthly. That cadence is genuinely new for SSMS, and it means “what’s new”…

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