Great Article Steve ! This is truly what life is about giving back. When I worked for IBM I was a volunteer for 11 years and mentored troubled 8th graders...

Very simple to setup and use, I still use this script method to this day. This will show you the offending process and can sit on your desktop and run...

My pleasure, we used this to watch a troubled sharepoint crawl that ran into business.

My pleasure was a counter measure from an incident.

The auto growths for the log cause the VLF's, if you perform a large growth to the size it needs to be for workloads you will not incur a large...

Nice job adding the additional code,

Ed

You are right Lynn, I have to break a few of the old habits. Thanks for the comments, Ed

The current posting grabs the performance monitor Memory Manager object and all it's underlying counters you would see if you cracked open perfmon and viewed this counter. 2 specific fields...

I will do another post with more of this type of code and be more specific with the next post. I took 1 line from a large powershell script I...

Very cool method to accomplish the task at hand, currently in SQL7 & 2000 I use a SQL Agent job to run a proc looking for blocking, if a block...

I found this on the web in a thread, it beat writing the whole thing myself. I added a bunch of WSH to create and dump to a timestamped file....

Look at WMI scripting you can dump all 3 event logs into 1 db table for querying like magic.....and tap into the win32_classes API...No limits there...

Good set of articles for the newbies! You can also add Size = to resize and make larger if need be. Also you need to go back and delete the...

Correct if you lock down IIS and only run its SMTP service its pretty safe and a custom procedure that checks if an allowed account is executing the procedure adds...

Lots of good points, need a solution. I wrote a script to watch sa logins and map to hostnames if an unfamilar host name uses sa i send a page...