Helping out

When you look at the Extended Events in the SSMS, is it a local time or server time? Let’s find out.

How can 15 be less than 13? Let’s have a look at this unexpected, but fully documented behaviour.

I’ve come up with an efficient way to monitor only specific data changes in a table.

I was investigating a mysterious Intent Shared lock in a deadlock report. Especially confusing, since the database was using an Optimistic Concurrency.