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Find Deprecated SQL Code Using Profiler

I stumbled across something really cool when I was reading through the BOL entry on sp_trace_setevent*, which gives a list of all events and columns available to trace.  This is, by the way, an extremely useful entry to have bookmarked. There are two events I hadn’t really noticed before: number 39, Deprecated, and  125, Deprecation […]

Highly Amusing Index Frag Anecdote

I can’t believe I haven’t told this story from SQLPASS yet… and by the way, here’s Paul Randal’s blog on this same event/topic. One of the few sessions I managed to attend was a really cool Grant Fritchey (blog, twitter) session on DMVs.  He was talking about the DMV that includes index fragmentation data (sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats) […]