Mitch Wheat - Treat the cause, not the symptoms!

Another SQL Server Trace Flags resource (in addition to the Microsoft one).

There are a bunch of SQL Server resources hosted there, SQL Server Kit.

I’ve updated SQLDiagCmd, my standalone executable for running any or all of Glenn Berry’s excellent SQL Server DMV diagnostic scripts.

As well as being able to target multiple servers and multiple databases, it now also has the option to exclude specified queries from being executed (such as those that might take some time to execute on large very databases or busy server instances).

The source code is available on GitHub and you can download the executable directly from these links:

SQLDiagCmd.zip

SQLDiagUI.zip

I was searching through email today looking for a LINQPad snippet that a colleague, James Miles, wrote some time ago, one which we used to generate the scripts for a production SQL Server database + transaction log point in time restore after IT had a little SAN mishap!

In doing so, I came across this gem from James: Solving Puzzles in C#: Poker Hands, which is not just a great example of writing a recursive function but of problem solving in general. [Where I used to work, we often used to have a Friday puzzle where I tried to come up with or find puzzles that wouldn’t be easy to solve by brute force.  This was one of the many times I was thwarted by James and others!]