Branding is important. That is not at dispute. (If someone disagrees, they are welcome to be wrong, but we oughtn't argue that here.)

There are two arguments in this thread that...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by  AMtwo.

Even after splitting this into separate threads, there's a lot going on in each of these threads. To save myself from writing a long missive, I am going to try...

This query (joining sys.dm_exec_sessions to sys.dm_exec_requests) is functionally different from querying sys.sysprocesses.

sys.sysprocesses has the current database context for every session (regardless of whether there are any currently-executing requests).

However, joining...