SQLServer Profiler Impact: GUI vs Server-side

After a recent talk at Cambridge NxtGenUG I was asked what the effect on SQLServer performance of gathering a trace in batch mode as opposed to using the GUI. The obvious answer, as always with these things, is “it depends”. But I was intrigued to see if I could quantify that a little further. The [...]

Generating Customer Records

For the demos I created for the Guerrilla Tactics session I am doing at Nxt Gen I decided I was rather bored of the usual test data of Customer 1 …. 99999. So instead adapted a script we have used in the past to anonymise client data. It is quite a simple script the only [...]

Guerrilla Warfare?

Guerrilla Tactics – Performance Testing MS SQL Server Applications Tonight (Tuesday 26th October) I am giving a talk on a Guerrilla Tactics approach to performances testing. Not how you would like your project to be but how to cope when they are not. Below are the links to the slide, demos and other resources. I [...]

A Grand Performance

Last night (Monday 13th September) I did gave a talk on a Guerrilla Tactics approach to performances testing. Not how you would like your project to be but how to cope when they are not.

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