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SQLAuthority News – CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL Error Messages, SQL Server Security
I just came across very interesting article from SANS Institute. Experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations have released list of 25 most dangerous programming errors and their resolution. It may be possible that many of the programmers may not understand what this errors are and…
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SQL SERVER – sqlcmd – Using a Dedicated Administrator Connection to Kill Currently Running Query

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security, SQL Utility, sqlcmd
People are judged from their questions and not their answers. I received wonderful question the other day. How sqlcmd can be used along with currently running query script posted on your blog? Please read following two posts before continuing this article as they cover background of this article. SQL SERVER…
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SQL SERVER – Find Currently Running Query – T-SQL

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security
This is the script which I always had in my archive. Following script find out which are the queries running currently on your server. SELECT sqltext.TEXT, req.session_id, req.status, req.command, req.cpu_time, req.total_elapsed_time FROM sys.dm_exec_requests req CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(sql_handle) AS sqltext While running above query if you find any query which is running for…
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SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2005 – Find Longest Running Query – TSQL

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC, SQL Stored Procedure

UPDATE : Updated this query with bug fixed with one more enhancement SERVER – 2008 – 2005 – Find Longest Running Query – TSQL – Part 2.
Recently my company owner asked me to find which query is running longest. It was very interesting that I was not able to find any T-SQL script online which can give me this data directly. Finally, I wrote down very quick script which gives me T-SQL which has ran on server along with average time and maximum time of that T-SQL execution. As I keep on writing I needed to know when exactly logging was started for the same T-SQL so I had added Logging start time in the query as well.

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