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How to Track Down Deadlocks Using SQL Server 2005 Profiler

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It is irritating, sometimes alarming, for the user to be confronted by the 'deadlock message' when a deadlock happens. It can be a tiresome business to prevent them from occurring in applications. Fortunately, the profiler can be used to help DBAs identify how deadlocking problems happen, and indicate the best way of minimising the likelihood of their reappearance.

2008-07-21

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Using the kill to cure

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Code profiling tools can help cure most performance problems, but sometimes the problem is so severe that you'll first need to know how to wield computing's least understood tool, the debugger, before diving in with the Profiler. Brian Donahue, Crash Scene Investigator, is on hand to explain why.

2007-11-02

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Write custom trace files in TSQL

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SQL Server 2005's default trace is great for monitoring system information and for finding out what happened on your server after problems occur. However, there are times when the events that the default captures are not what you need. Here are instructions for how you can create your own trace files in TSQL to catch events on your database machine.

2007-10-08

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Multiple Escape Characters

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):

SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned?

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