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First Responder Kit, First Responder Kit Updates

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

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

First Responder Kit, First Responder Kit Updates

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.…

First Responder Kit Release: Precon Precogs

Last Updated May 9, 2018

First Responder Kit, First Responder Kit Updates

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

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…

First Responder Kit Release: Fully Hand Automated

Last Updated August 31, 2017

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

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…

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

Last Updated July 5, 2017

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

First Responder Kit Updates: So Many Updates, Brent Quit

Last Updated February 13, 2017

I got 128 GB of RAM just to develop sp_BlitzCache with! Also, thanks to @RichBenner @BrentOzar and @douglane for code, and @LitKnd and @HenrikStaunPoulsen for great ideas! Grab the newly updated First Responder Kit, and here’s what’s in it: sp_Blitz Improvements #677 Finally! A bug that isn’t ours! Microsoft forget to let SE clean up…

First Responder Kit Updates: New Checks Across the Board

Last Updated February 13, 2017

It’s the December to Remember Script Event, and we’ve got updates to everything. Shout out to our contributors this month: @BlitzErik, @RichBenner, @runamuk0, @SQLMonger, and @BrentOzar. Grab the newly updated First Responder Kit, and here’s what’s in it: sp_Blitz Improvements #591 – add check for 2016 Standard installed without Service Pack 1 (coded by @RichBenner) #615…

Updated First Responder Kit: sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, sp_BlitzIndex

Last Updated November 15, 2016

These improvements go great with cranberries. The food, not the b – actually, they go pretty well with the band, too. sp_Blitz Improvements #568 – @RichBenner added a check for the default parallelism settings sp_BlitzCache Improvements by @BlitzErik #495 – add warning for indexed views with missing stats #557 – bug fix – don’t alert…

First Responder Kit Update: sp_BlitzCache Catches Cursors, Scalar Functions, and More

Last Updated October 23, 2016

Every time we take on a client for our SQL Critical Care®, the very first thing we do is run the First Responder Kit scripts: sp_Blitz to get a health check, sp_BlitzFirst to check their wait stats, sp_BlitzIndex to look at their indexes, and sp_BlitzCache to see the most resource-intensive queries. Very often, these scripts surface…

Updated First Responder Kit: sp_Blitz markdown output, sp_BlitzIndex statistics checks

Last Updated April 25, 2017