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I will make your #SQLServer faster in exchange for money. https://linktr.ee/darlingdata
Performance monitoring that doesn't suck. Free. Built by someone who has actually tuned a query. Solve problems, instead of clicking around dumb charts and graphs. PerformanceMonitor 3.3.0 is out now: github.com/erikdarlingd...
Release v3.3.0 — Nothing Held Back · erikdarlingdata/PerformanceMonitor
See CHANGELOG.md for details. Highlights: the retention rollups now serve the history they claim (coverage-aware read routing + the --backfill-rollups operator verb, ending the held-purge era with ...
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v3.2.0 is out. Darling is the new headless SQL Server monitoring edition. One free service watches 5 servers or 500, and an AI agent can drive it over MCP. Built by someone who actually tunes queries. github.com/erikdarlingd...
Performance Studio 1.16.0 is out. Query Store search and filtering: find plans by query text, set execution and duration thresholds, include or ignore specific queries. Filters apply before the top N. It updates itself. github.com/erikdarlingd...
a great post by niko where he talks about something really useful you can do with hekaton: www.nikoport.com/2026/07/19/t...
The Odyssey of Hekaton (SQL Server 2025)
Over the years, I have contributed with a reasonably big number of posts on the topic of In-Memory OLTP (aka Hekaton) and I did a couple of focused presentations on this wonderful feature as well. …
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built a claude code plugin that reads sql server execution plans and tells you what's wrong. /plugin marketplace add erikdarlingdata/claude-plugins /plugin install sqlserver-query-plans@erikdarling then run /reload-plugins and just point it at a .sqlplan file: github.com/erikdarlingd...
GitHub - erikdarlingdata/claude-plugins: Claude Code plugins from Erik Darling Data
Claude Code plugins from Erik Darling Data. Contribute to erikdarlingdata/claude-plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5% after 3 years, only 1% use it weekly, yet prices went up
Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot after three years, only 1% use it weekly, and Microsoft raised prices regardless.
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this is very cool. databricks is doing some really amazing stuff, which is a pretty stark contrast to the utter lifelessness of fabric: www.databricks.com/blog/lakebas...
From monolith to Lakebase to LTAP: rethinking the database from storage up
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Performance Studio 1.15.0 is out. The Query Store visualizations now use a validated colorblind-safe palette, so the charts stay readable no matter how you see color. Auto-updates if you already have it. github.com/erikdarlingd...
July DarlingData release: Declaration of Index-pendence. sp_HumanEventsBlockViewer decodes wait_resource to show the blocked object. sp_IndexCleanup writes filtered-index fix scripts. github.com/erikdarlingd...
Get Your Blog Posts Ready for T-SQL Tuesday #200. Here’s the Topic. Way back in December of 2009, Adam Machanic published a blog post (archive) in which he invited database bloggers to participate in a new monthly event he called T-SQL Tuesday. Each month, he (or a blogger he picked) proposed a…
Get Your Blog Posts Ready for T-SQL Tuesday #200. Here’s the Topic.
Way back in December of 2009, Adam Machanic published a blog post (archive) in which he invited database bloggers to participate in a new monthly event he called T-SQL Tuesday. Each month, he (or a blogger he picked) proposed a topic, and on that date, we'd all publish our blog posts at the same time. It was a fun way to get a variety of opinions about a topic.
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🎉🥳 IT'S HERE 🥳🎉 PerformanceMonitor v3.0.0 has landed, and it's a big one! 🚀 No more UI freezes 🔍 Object + index-level collection 🧠 Rebuilt recommendations engine Free, open source, zero breaking changes. 🍾 github.com/erikdarlingd...
Pre-cons for PASS Summit West are official 🎉 I'm teaching a full day: "T-SQL That Doesn't Suck: Solving Performance and Concurrency Problems." #PASSDataSummit passdatacommunitysummit.com/west/pre-con...
Episode 312: I'm sure they're angry and white doingtheirbest.com/312
312: I'm sure they're angry and white
A Podcast from Drew Furgiuele and Paul Bahler
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Is “title of my memoirs” still a joke we do? youtu.be/9LzO-pASuzA?...
"Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe...." 😆
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Some minor script updates, and a dangerous new friend. github.com/erikdarlingd...
Release Updates_20260601 - A Killer New Friend · erikdarlingdata/DarlingData
What's new ProtectSession (1.0) First public release of a per-session blocking watchdog. You run it from a separate connection, point it at a session_id you care about, and it KILLs anyone blocking...
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Performance Studio: A Cross-Platform SQL Server Execution Plan Analyzer You have a slow query. You pull the execution plan in SSMS. You stare at the arrows. Some are thick, some are thin. There's a yellow triangle somewhere. You're pretty sure the problem is "in there," but translating a ShowPlan…
Performance Studio: A Cross-Platform SQL Server Execution Plan Analyzer
You have a slow query. You pull the execution plan in SSMS. You stare at the arrows. Some are thick, some are thin. There's a yellow triangle somewhere. You're pretty sure the problem is "in there," but translating a ShowPlan XML tree into actionable tuning advice requires experience that takes years to build. Performance Studio is a free, open-source execution plan analyzer built by…
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Performance Monitor: Free SQL Server Monitoring That Doesn’t Phone Home I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about tools. Some of them are good. Some of them are overhyped on LinkedIn. This one is neither overhyped nor underpowered. It's the real deal. Performance Monitor is a free,…
Performance Monitor: Free SQL Server Monitoring That Doesn’t Phone Home
I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about tools. Some of them are good. Some of them are overhyped on LinkedIn. This one is neither overhyped nor underpowered. It's the real deal. Performance Monitor is a free, open-source SQL Server monitoring tool built by Erik Darling of Darling Data. MIT-licensed. No telemetry. No cloud dependency. Your data stays on your server and your machine.
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