Tag: Auditing

  • DBA Scripts: Extended Events Tracing

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting Ask most DBAs “what’s actually connecting to this server” or “is this database still in use” and you’ll get an opinion, not an answer. SQL Server doesn’t track any of this for you by default, no login history worth trusting,…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Remove XE Session

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Extended Events & Tracing An Extended Events session you stood up for a decommission audit, a login trace, or a stored procedure profile isn’t meant to run forever. Once you’ve got the evidence, it’s just overhead, disk space, buffer…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get XE Session Activity

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting › Extended Events & Tracing Standing up a trace session is the easy part. The actual decision, is this database safe to decommission, is that service account still connecting from the right host, comes from reading the results back and…

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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Get Active XE Sessions

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    🔧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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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Create SP Execution Session

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    🔧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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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Create Decommission Audit Session

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    🔧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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    Peter Whyte

  • DBA Scripts: Create Login Activity Session

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    🔧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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    Peter Whyte
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