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First Responder Kit Release: Just When You Think There’s Nothing New Left To Do

Last Updated June 4, 2018

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T*m* f*r An*th*r F*rst R*spond*r K*t R*l**s*. All joking aside! A big thank you goes out to a few people this go around: @jadarnel27 for not only contributing a bunch of Super Professional T-SQL, but also for writing a web scraping application to compile a list of current SQL Server versions. @nedotter @ktaranov and Aleksey Nagorskiy for putting together…

First Responder Kit Release: Darn May Showers

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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There’s usually something that I think is funny in this space. Instead, I’m going to extend my already extensive day of civic duty by letting you know something interesting about jury duty. Sometimes, if you show up when they ask you to, they can make you come back for a second day if they…

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First Responder Kit Release: Driving Miss Data

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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Ugh. Bungabase slow. When Grog try count meat, Glug eat meat. Then Grog get hungry and Glug try count meat. Bungalock. Need big head make bungabase fast. You big head? You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #1459: A while back, Brent blogged about implicit transactions. In the comments, a smart commenter named Dan pointed…

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First Responder Kit Release: SQLBits was pretty awesome but now I have to do work again

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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APRIL FOOLS! IT’S ONLY MARCH FIRST! Tomorrow. Butthead. You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #1407: @parlevjo2 gave us a check to make sure databases are owned by an existing user. Existence is everything, so I hear. #1416: After existence is probably location. After that is collation. @ktaranov let us know that our collation wasn’t all that. Especially…

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First Responder Kit Release: Sunday, Boring Sunday

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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This is a modified limited release. After a few new feature releases, we’re achieving stasis. You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. There are a couple points from the last release that I really need to emphasize: sp_BlitzCache got some new columns added to the output for tempdb spills. If you want to keep logging it…

First Responder Kit Release: It’s Too Cold Not To Do A Release

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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You look just like a snake when you crawl like a worm. You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #1310: @CferMN reported quite an odd conversion error! Turns out, division was a better idea than multiplication. #1341: We we missing the newest version of Windows, and we had a broken link. Thanks to @JaySpatzfor letting us know!…

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First Responder Kit Release: Treating Object References Like Object Instances, Man

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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Object reference not set to an instance of an object. You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #1281 We’ve lowered the priority of Query Store being disabled. It’s just not as important as the backups you’re not taking and the corruption checks you’re not running. sp_BlitzCache Improvements #1253 Due to an unfortunate copy and paste incident,…

Announcing the Free First Responder Kit Power BI Dashboard

Last Updated November 14, 2017

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What the heck is going on inside your SQL Server? Why’s it so slow? I wrote sp_BlitzFirst to answer that question, but that only works right now. You have to be standing in front of your computer to do diagnostics when the problem strikes. So now, you can run sp_BlitzFirst, have it log data to a…

First Responder Kit Release: The Ides Of November

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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IB Rewop This is a cleanup release to get some of the pull requests in that didn’t make it in before the precon. There’s also a secret unlockable character that Brent is blogging about next week! Please clap. You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #1199 We’ve updated the unsupported builds list! Now you can…

First Responder Kit Power BI Dashboard (Discontinued)

Last Updated November 26, 2020

As of May 2020, I’m no longer supporting this tool. Absolutely nothing against Power BI – I love it – but the Power BI support questions were kicking my butt. Most of my audience just isn’t Power BI savvy yet, and they ran into a lot of problems trying to work with this new tool.…

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First Responder Kit Release: Precon Precogs

Last Updated May 9, 2018

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This release comes to you from a hotel room in Chicago: The land of fiscal insolvency and one shooting per hour. It’s pretty nice, otherwise. This release is to get the pre-precon important stuff in. As much as I’d like to push all the recent contributions through, between travel, speaking, and uh… what do the…

First Responder Kit Release: Still Totally Lacking A Servicing Model

Last Updated September 29, 2017

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A lot of people would think we’re crazy for releasing a FRK update a few days before a new version of SQL Server drops, but we’ve been adding 2017 compatible features for months Also none of you are on 2017 Most of you won’t live to be on 2017 If you’re lucky, your kids3000 will…

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First Responder Kit Release: Fully Hand Automated

Last Updated August 31, 2017

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Did you know there are more issues closed in this FRK than there are planets in this solar system? Special thanks to Pluto for making that statement possible, and all the other planets that didn’t form. Also thanks to @mches for making the FIRST EVER contribution to sp_foreachdb, and @rabryst for hooking us up with some Linux Love in…

First Responder Kit Release: Yukon Ho!

Last Updated August 1, 2017

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We’re going to Alaska this month, so try not to find any bugs, okay? To celebrate, I’m channeling childhood nostalgia, and quoting a verse from one of my many Taco-Bell-dripping-stained Calvin and Hobbes tomes. We’ll never have to clean a plate, Of veggie goops and goos Messily we’ll masticate, Using any fork we choose! When…

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First Responder Kit Release: Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Wonderful

Last Updated July 5, 2017

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ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN WHO DO WE APPRECIATE? No one. Appreciate doesn’t rhyme with seven. Special thanks to @JohnKNess, @jsetliffe, @rabryst, @gdoddsy and @SOlsonFAC for various levels of contribution. I’ve made a $10,000 donation in each of your names to the Erik Darling Home For Little Wanderers. Very thoughtful of me. You…

First Responder Kit Release: Now With 50% MORE Double Checking

Last Updated June 3, 2017

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So many things happen in mid-Summer. Dreams. Death. Pit stains. And FRK updates! Special thanks to @digitalohm for once again taking the axe to sp_DatabaseRestore. You are the only person on our email list who isn’t getting a Box O’ Tripe® You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #872 @MosesOfJ pointed out that,…

First Responder Kit Re-Release: The Hubris Of Titles

Last Updated May 2, 2017

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The Gods of the Copy Book Headings Frowned Upon Me So yesterday, I pushed out a new FRK. You could say I FRKed up, and you’d be right. Not so much See, before I push stuff to master, I do a round of testing in our AWS lab to find version-specific bugs and make sure…

First Responder Kit Release: Ça plane pour moi

Last Updated May 1, 2017

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Ah, May. Spring has sprung, and young people’s minds turn towards seasonal allergies. Special thanks to @digitalohm for the Differential Restore code and general sp_DatabaseRestore spiffiness. May you live to an age that can only be described in Unix. You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here. sp_Blitz Improvements #857 Do you have any idea how much…

First Responder Kit Release: Now With 100% More Working Code Than The Irish Space Program

Last Updated April 7, 2017

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Every April I think about this girl I grew up with named April who smelled like Cheez-Wiz. She died tragically in a home for the blind on Taco Tuesday. Special thanks to @jeffrosenberg , @mrthomsmith , @rwhoward for contributing this month. Your complimentary oxygen is now available. The rest of you can go download the First…

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First Responder Kit Release: We hired Brent back because he promised to fix his code

Last Updated March 21, 2017

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March comes in like a 40 of Steel Reserve and leaves like your memory of the night after drinking a 40 of Steel Reserve. Get it here! sp_Blitz Improvements — #758 and #756 We made it less scary to run on Express Edition. Why? Because running Express Edition is scary enough. Coded by @Totty1973 and…

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