As a DBA or SQL Developer, the amount of time we work with SQL Server Management can never be measured. As a database person, these hidden gems of SQL Server can never be underestimated. With each release the tool improves to give the next set of features. I have seen in multiple blogs where the Product Managers constantly ask for feedbacks and are looking at making enhancements to the tool. If you go to the connect site, the votes for a feature requests decides if they will ever make it into the next release of SSMS. If you get the drift, knowing the statistics on a given request decides how the feature will get added. These statistics and questions gives product team the confidence to people’s request. Similarly, when working with SQL Server objects, it will be useful if we can know how many times a procedure were called and how many CPU, IO cycles were spent. Let’s see Resource Locking and Object Execution Statistics Report.
The month of June till mid of July has been the fever of sports. First, it was Wimbledon Tennis and then the Soccer fever was all over. There is a huge number of fan followers and it is great to see the level at which people sometimes worship these sports. Being an Indian, I cannot forget to mention the India tour of England later part of July. Following these sports and as the events unfold to the finals, there are a number of ways the statisticians can slice and dice the numbers. Cue from soccer I can surely say there is a team performance against another team and then there is individual member fairs against a particular opponent. Such statistics give us a fair idea to how a team in the past or in the recent past has fared against each other, head-to-head stats during World cup and during other neutral venue games.