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  • LinkedIn, ORM Tools, and idiot managers convinced they're closer to the code and tools than I am.

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  • Brandie Tarvin (12/3/2014)


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    Chad Crawford (12/2/2014)


    Stefan Krzywicki (12/2/2014)


    How do you view the queries it generates? Are they persisted somewhere? Do you just see them through Perfmon? Something else?

    Perfmon for us too. I've been trying to move to XEvents, but when I'm under a crunch I still fall back on the tool I know best. I promise to do better in the future! 😉

    Gag. XE works soooo much better and cleaner.

    Create the session once and turn it on only when you need it. Easier to get it running that way when under a crunch. :-D:-D:-D

    Yeah XE is better once you get to 2012, but unfortunately I, and many others, are still supporting mostly 2008R2 servers for which I still rely on SQL Trace pretty heavily for things like this.

    Even in 2008R2, XE beats the pants off trace. Capturing sql statements and even execution plans is sooo easy with XE.

    What about the non-R2 version of SQL 2008? Does XE work with that? (And what is XE?)

    XE (Extended Events / XEvents) was introduced with SQL Server 2008. In that release, the feature was pretty basic in comparison to what is available with SQL 2014. That said, there is a lot of usefulness to the feature even in 2008. XEvents are a lot of fun to play with and to use.

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  • SQLRNNR (12/2/2014)


    Chad Crawford (12/2/2014)


    I completely agree that Hibernate/Entity Framework is roughly equivalent to feeding a Mogwai after midnight (if you haven’t seen “Gremlins”, just know it is bad).

    Buahahaha

    Great quote.

    I've got a slide in a presentation to update now

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  • And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

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  • GilaMonster (12/5/2014)


    And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

    Here's a bit of easy code to solve the problem...

    USE Master;

    GO

    DROP DATABASE KillTheDamnEFApp;

    GO

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  • Brandie Tarvin (12/5/2014)


    GilaMonster (12/5/2014)


    And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

    Here's a bit of easy code to solve the problem...

    USE Master;

    GO

    DROP DATABASE KillTheDamnEFApp;

    GO

    Well, it must be the database. Clearly and obviously, it couldn't possibly be the bad code the app uses to access the data. No way...don't even discuss it. It has to be the database. Good luck, Gail.

  • Ed Wagner (12/5/2014)


    Brandie Tarvin (12/5/2014)


    GilaMonster (12/5/2014)


    And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

    Here's a bit of easy code to solve the problem...

    USE Master;

    GO

    DROP DATABASE KillTheDamnEFApp;

    GO

    Well, it must be the database. Clearly and obviously, it couldn't possibly be the bad code the app uses to access the data. No way...don't even discuss it. It has to be the database. Good luck, Gail.

    I'm just saying... The app can't run without the database. The app will stop functioning once the database is gone. Then Gail doesn't have to support it. Right?

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  • GilaMonster (12/5/2014)


    And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

    Ouch, I don't even think the crappy Java app I'm supporting generates that much trace data. I guess it could if I added more events when I run it.

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    More annoying than the other spam, since I now get an email in my inbox for it.

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  • Koen Verbeeck (12/8/2014)


    New type of spam:

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    More annoying than the other spam, since I now get an email in my inbox for it.

    Great...just what we all need in our lives - more spam.

  • Koen Verbeeck (12/8/2014)


    New type of spam:

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    More annoying than the other spam, since I now get an email in my inbox for it.

    At least the profile picture isn't bad:rolleyes:

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  • Jack Corbett (12/5/2014)


    GilaMonster (12/5/2014)


    And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

    Ouch, I don't even think the crappy Java app I'm supporting generates that much trace data. I guess it could if I added more events when I run it.

    That 5GB is with my standard, light-weight event set. Batch Completed, RPC completed.

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    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • GilaMonster (12/9/2014)


    Jack Corbett (12/5/2014)


    GilaMonster (12/5/2014)


    And crisis, panic, run around screaming, the EF-based app is slow.

    600MB database, generating 5GB of trace data in 1 hour....

    Ouch, I don't even think the crappy Java app I'm supporting generates that much trace data. I guess it could if I added more events when I run it.

    That 5GB is with my standard, light-weight event set. Batch Completed, RPC completed.

    App set up so exactly the same call is made a shedload of times? I've actually seen a 'database problem' where things were admittedle on the slow side - mostly because the page was making about 10000 calls to repeatedly pull the same data. (We've got third party apps doing the same thing).

    Hard to nail those in live when there's that much chaff. Works easiest if you can get a trace one process at a time in dev.

    I'm a DBA.
    I'm not paid to solve problems. I'm paid to prevent them.

  • andrew gothard (12/9/2014)


    App set up so exactly the same call is made a shedload of times? I've actually seen a 'database problem' where things were admittedle on the slow side - mostly because the page was making about 10000 calls to repeatedly pull the same data. (We've got third party apps doing the same thing).

    Hard to nail those in live when there's that much chaff. Works easiest if you can get a trace one process at a time in dev.

    +1 here. I had a new app at a large company crash on day one. A quick profiler trace showed that they were doing this, same call, over and over. Enough to generate about my (then) 25MB trace file every second. On a SQL 2K server in 2001, this was good enough to get a VP down to my desk.

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    andrew gothard (12/9/2014)


    App set up so exactly the same call is made a shedload of times? I've actually seen a 'database problem' where things were admittedle on the slow side - mostly because the page was making about 10000 calls to repeatedly pull the same data. (We've got third party apps doing the same thing).

    Hard to nail those in live when there's that much chaff. Works easiest if you can get a trace one process at a time in dev.

    +1 here. I had a new app at a large company crash on day one. A quick profiler trace showed that they were doing this, same call, over and over. Enough to generate about my (then) 25MB trace file every second. On a SQL 2K server in 2001, this was good enough to get a VP down to my desk.

    My app does almost everything with server-side cursors through JDBC, so I'll see sp_cursorpepare and then 100's or 1000's of sp_cursorexec statements. In minutes I have like 1/2 million events for this app with RPC:COmpleted and Batch:Completed events.

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