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Set Your Application Names Before You Wish You Had.

September 8, 2026

When you run monitoring queries like sp_BlitzWho and sp_WhoIsActive, you wanna see the program names that are running the queries. It's super useful when you've got multiple apps running on the same servers, or when you've got apps scattered across end user computers.

If you don't set the program names, you'll either end up with empty strings, or your dev tool's default name, like Core .Net SqlClient Data Provider, which doesn't tell you jack.

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