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 migrate the last 2008R2 servers to SQL Server 2016
In the year 10,016, when, Double Extra Extended WE MEAN IT THIS TIME Support finally ends
My uploaded AI will be laughing at you
You can download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip here.
sp_Blitz Improvements
— #1100 Ironic that someone would encrypt backups with a certificate but then not backup their encryption certificate, isn’t it? A bit like copying all your DVDs to VHS and then lending your VCR to a carny.
— #1110 There was a code switcheroo that took out the filtering for regular DBCC CHECKDB calls. @markions told us about it. Brent fixed it. I did absolutely nothing. I chose cozy.
— #1116 I got up off my cozy butt and fixed some typos in system XE session names to filter out. Boy were those stupid typos.
sp_BlitzCache Improvements
— #976 Is Paul White Electric? It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves about the SQL Mastermind/Intergalactic Celestial Being masquerading as a humble blogging man. If you’ve always wanted a reason to email him but couldn’t think of one, perhaps finding a Switch operator will be your excuse.
— #1129 No matter how much gets written about Implicit Conversion, we still keep finding it. This code extends the analysis of implicit conversions to tell you which variables caused implicit conversion on which column when they effect a Seek Plan. In testing, it works for stored proc parameters and declared variables (procs and adhoc).
While we’re in there, we pull out the compile-time values and give you the exec command used to call the proc, in case you need to test a parameter sniffing scenario.
sp_BlitzFirst Improvements
— #983 Wait stats are categorized the way MS lines them up in sys.query_store_wait_stats. It’s like a wait stats decoder ring that you don’t need to buy 48 boxes of Count Chocula to get.
— #1092 There are 172 kinds of memory pressure in the known universe. We now warn on one more of them: external memory pressure. We try to figure that out by looking at if memory usage is way below max memory.
sp_BlitzIndex Improvements
Nothing this time.
sp_BlitzWho Improvements
— #1089 On pre-2012 versions of SQL Server, it was possible for multiple rows to be returned due to an errant LEFT JOIN clause that was later replaced by an OUTER APPLY. Thanks to @nirst for letting us know about this one!
— #1090 In tempdb usage, we weren’t subtracting deallocated pages from allocated pages. This is dumb. And Fixed.
— #1112 Welcome to the future. Or at least current. SQL Server 2016 introduced the sys.dm_exec_query_statistics_xml DMV. That’s s fancy way of saying we have another way of finding query plans for currently executing queries.
sp_DatabaseRestore Improvements
Nothing this time.
sp_BlitzBackups Improvements
Nothing this time.
sp_BlitzQueryStore Improvements
— #976 and #1129 from above
— #1118 Some stored procs were being flagged as having unparameterized queries when they weren’t.
— #1120 When examining a single stored proc, different runs had costs summed up across executions. Now they don’t. Weird, right? Accuracy. What a concept.
— #1122 Parameter sniffing symptom thresholds were relaxed from 10,000x difference between averages/min/max to 100x difference. This makes more sense. Long term, I’m going to work on making this percentage based. I just have to learn math first.
sp_AllNightLog and sp_AllNightLog_Setup Improvements
— #1005 Databases were left in a questionable state. I thought it was Maryland. I was wrong. It was “not backed up”.
— #1016 It was hard to disable restoring jobs, because we built this thing Ford Tough. It’s still Ford Tough, but it has an override to make it Kia Wimpy if you need to disable stuff.
— #1037 Added support for encrypted backup parameters!
sp_foreachdb Improvements
Nothing this time.
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