Questions tagged [sp-blitz]
sp_Blitz is a stored procedure that checks the health of your Microsoft SQL Server instance.
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Runing sp_Blitz on a database as a user - Work arounds please
I am a DBA on many servers running SQL Server and am a big user of sp_Blitz. The issue I have is that I am still to maintain a database that is migrating to a VM on AWS.
The issue is that I'm not ...
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sp_blitz fails with: Msg 468, Level 16, State 9 Cannot resolve collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_BIN"
Has anyone had an issue with running sp_blitz on an instance using the Latin1_BIN collation? I created the stored procedure without error, but when I ran it I got the following error message:
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How to work around sp_blitzwho lock timeout?
Running sp_blitzwho @GetLiveQueryPlan = 1 on SQL2019 to monitor a big index rebuild operation but running into the following error:
Lock request time out period exceeded.
Anything I can do to avoid ...
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sp_BlitzFirst - SQL Server - slow data reads - huge wait stats
We are experiencing intermittent SQL Server issues, where from time to time, it would become unresponsive for a few minutes, causing an outage of a system, driving crazy many users.
I started using ...
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Does sp_Blitz @BringThePain parameter cause pain for the user (delay) or the server (blocking/slowing production workload)?
I want to run sp_Blitz and other scripts (from first aid) on a busy primary production server.
There are 75 databases on the server, of which 40 are in an availability group (synchronous, no read ...
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sp_Blitz shows "write_conflict" from In-memory OLTP
My team came across a In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) transaction issue with several of our machines showing that there were a varying number of write conflicts per machine. We do have Memory-Optimized ...
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Can a server wide setting of 'Max Degree of Parallelism' = 1 cause Brent Ozar's sp_BlitzCache to flag execution plan as 'forced-serialization'?
I am using Brent Ozar's sp_BlitzCache store procedure and I'm attempting to nail down why it is reporting:
"Something in your plan is forcing a serial query. Further
investigation is needed if ...
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Sp_BlitzWho can get blocked...?
I was playing around with sp_BlitzWho and got blocked by another session. The session was from the DB were sp_BlitzWho is... I was planning to automate it and save the results to a table, so I could ...
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NUMA config - sp_blitz output
I'm trying to learn more about how SQL Server works with NUMA nodes as I noticed something in the output of sp_Blitz that I didn't understand:
Node: 0 State: ONLINE Online schedulers: 8 Offline ...
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sp_blitz script not working on Azure sql database [closed]
sp_blitz script not working on Azure sql database
Msg 40515, Level 15, State 1, Procedure sp_Blitz, Line 16 [Batch Start Line 3]
Reference to database and/or server name in 'master.sys.all_objects' ...
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How can sp_blitz help investigate what caused TLog to fill up
Non-uncommon scenario: Something has ran wild and caused the TLog for a patifular Db to fill and everything has stopped. How can sp_blitz show us some info on what led up to this point? What about ...
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Where can I find a list of CheckIDs for sp_Blitz?
We have a home-grown system of monitors and processes that generate events which are then gathered into a central instance and are sent as daily summary reports to operational DBAs via SSRS. It ...
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Permission denied when trying to install sp_blitz on in the master database in Amazon RDS
I am trying to install sp_blitz on AWS RDS SQL Server (14.0.3223.3) standard edition and getting following error:
Msg 262, Level 14, State 18, Procedure sp_Blitz, Line 1 [Batch Start Line 0]
CREATE ...
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sp_Blitz fails with collation error
SQL Server version (output from select @@VERSION): Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RTM-CU19) (KB4535007) - 14.0.3281.6 (X64) (Build 14393: )
Installed sp_Blitz from Brent Ozar, stored procedure creates ...
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Error while running sp_blitz in 2008 SQL Server and lower versions
I have created an SSIS package to run sp_blitz in my production servers. The stored procedure runs fine for servers having a version higher than 2012 but fails for 2008 and 2005.
Please find the ...
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How to find DBCC events reported by sp_Blitz
sp_Blitz reports:
Overall Events
7 DBCC events have taken place between Oct 14 2019 3:22PM and Nov 19 2019 12:24PM. This does not include CHECKDB and other usually benign DBCC events.
How do I find ...
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CPU Usage Incorrect in sys.dm_os_ring_buffers
I'm running a cloud VPS with a SQL Server instance. Because it's for personal use, I'm using express edition (I can't use developer edition because I technically have production apps running on it and ...
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Exclude IP addresses of Vulnerability Scanner [closed]
I am working with the SQL team to see if there is a way to globally whitelist IP addresses that are causing alerts within sp_Blitz? Would like to have them exclude 5 IP addresses.
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SQL Performance post virtualization - sp_blitz and latency info attached
Full disclosure, I'm a VMware admin. We're trying to virtualize a SQL server that handles pricing information for multiple customers. Up until now, it has been a physical system with local SSDs. ...
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sp_Blitz script output
I'm a very green DBA at my company, and ran the sp_Blitz script (on one of our test databases that is an exact copy of our production database), and I only get the message "Command(s) completed ...
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Why is sp_Blitz executing for more than 5 hours [closed]
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I am running sp_Blitz on my SQL Server 2014 with 93 databases. It has been running for more than 5 hours and still won't complete. I am able to run sp_BlitzWho,sp_BlitzIndex,sp_BlitzFirst ...
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sp_Blitz Error on Azure SQL Database [closed]
Getting the following error when trying to install sp_Blitz on a Azure SQL Database
Msg 40515, Level 15, State 1, Procedure sp_Blitz, Line 16 [Batch Start
Line 15] Reference to database and/or ...
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Who done it sp_blitz [closed]
is there a way to add Session ID and timestamp to your first responders scripts? In particular the sp_BlitzLock. I am trying to find out when and by who some adhoc scripts are run that cause blocking ...
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TSQL Agent jobs owned by users
I'm new to Brent Ozar's sp_blitz and am trying to do some cleanup in my new job. I get tons of security findings about agent jobs owned by users. Most of these hits are system-type accounts (...
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scheduler_count in Azure SQL DB
I'm trying to find a scheduler_count for my Azure SQL DB, so that I can get sp_Blitz to run. On all other platforms, scheduler_count can be read from sys.dm_os_sys_info, but this dmv is not available ...
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Can sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, or sp_BlitzFirst identify what queries caused a major growth operation to occur on a particular log file?
I'm currently logging the outputs of sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, and sp_BlitzFirst regularly (via SQL jobs).
A particular database's log file grew somewhat exponentially and I believe I can see the ...
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FOR XML could not serialize the data for node 'col_definition'
looking for some help. I have just started looking at the Blitz stats but getting the following error. This is whilst running sp_BlitzIndex. I am using Version 7.2 (dated 28/01/2019).
FOR XML ...
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install FirstResponderKit in Azure SQL DB?
I've just downloaded the newest version (20190128) of FirstResponderKit from BrentOzar.com, and tried to install it on Azure SQL DB.
I'm getting these errors:
Msg 40515, Level 15, State 1, Procedure ...
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Difference between request and session in sp_blitzwho?
I'm starting to use sp_blitzwho, and I was wondering about a few of the columns.
There are a set of columns that start request_ such as request_writes, and then a set of columns that start session_, ...
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"Slow Storage Writes on Drive T" warning from sp_Blitz
We migrated our platform to new SQL Server 2016 instances a couple of nights ago. Immediately following the migration, we ran sp_Blitz again, but noticed the following entry, which relates to the ...
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Minutely Log Backups - Missed Jobs
I tried searching for this but couldn't find an existing question about this. I'm considering implementing Brent Ozar's suggestion to backup minutely for our critical databases. I don't have a great ...
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sp_Blitz, >1000 plans for CREATE PROCEDURE
I'm using Brent Ozar's sp_Blitz, and one of its results is this:
Many Plans for One Query
1146 plans are present for a single query in the plan cache - meaning we probably have parameterization ...
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User created index question - sp_Blitz 5/17/18 - Incorrect output?
I have SQL Server 2014 CU11 with sp_Blitz 5/17/18 8:44AM release. sp_Blitz is reporting that I have user created statistics on some of my databases. I've executed a script that deletes all user ...
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Resolving sp_Blitz Finding: Many Plans for One Query
Why Multiple Plans for One Query Are Bad
So I was running sp_Blitz to get a handle on some systems. Got some code to get cleaned up as usual. Some heaps that should have been clustered indexes. ...
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SQL Server's "Total Server Memory" consumption stagnant for months with 64GB+ more available
I have run into an odd issue where SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition 64-bit has seemed to have capped itself off at precisely half of the total memory allocated towards it (64GB of 128GB).
The output ...
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sp_Blitz taking too long to complete
I just installed sp_Blitz and it has been running for an hour and still won't complete. I am able to run sp_BlitzFirst and it takes about 3 minutes to run but does complete.
Any idea why it won't ...
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SQL Server sp_BlitzCache - Many Plans for One Query
I'm in need of a bit of assistance.
I ran sp_Blitz on one of my SQL Servers and one of the results it returned is "1531 plans are present for a single query in the plan cache - meaning we probably ...
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How do I check my sp_Blitz/sp_WhoIsActive versions across multiple servers/databases?
I have a bunch of SQL Servers registered within my SSMS, lots of different SQL versions, editions and DB compatibilities.
I want to check out if any of those servers have any of the sp_Blitz or ...
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Database file ..._log has a max file size set to x MB. If it runs out of space, the database will stop working
I am using BrentOzar's SQL Server First Responder Kit since I fall under the category "developer who manages Microsoft SQL Servers. It's your fault if they're down or slow."
One of the warning of ...
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sp_blitz shows "Last good DBCC CHECKDB over 2 weeks old"
When I run sp_blitz, I see
-[ RECORD 5 ]-------------------------
Priority | 1
FindingsGroup | Reliability
Finding | Last good DBCC CHECKDB over 2 weeks old
DatabaseName |...
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Getting errors when installing and using sp_blitz with `sqlcmd.exe`?
I installed this third party thingy, sp_Blitz.
sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -i ./sp_Blitz.sql
But when I run
1> EXEC sp_blitz;
2> go
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Warning: Null value is eliminated by an aggregate ...
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FILESTREAM_WORKITEM_QUEUE high waits
I've been using sp_BlitzFirst and logging the results every 15 minutes for the past 5 days. Using the new Power BI report from FirstResponderKit.org, I'm seeing a VERY large range of ...
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Full Text Catalog Indexes Not Populating
I ran sp_Blitz on a server and it indicated that full text indexes were not populating. I got a list of the indexes that are not populating and looked at the definitions of the indexes. The syntax ...
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Minimum permissions required to run sp_Blitz
I need to run sp_Blitz and a bunch of DMV queries from Glenn Berry's Dr DMV set for SQL 2016. The documentation for sp_Blitz on BrentOzar.com states "Sysadmin permissions. sp_Blitz® checks a lot of ...
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sp_Blitz error: "File '' either does not exist.."
SQL Server 2008 v10.0.5538.0
sp_Blitz v5.5
I'm trying to run sp_Blitz for the first time and getting this error message:
sp_Blitz @CheckUserDatabaseObjects = 0
Warning: Null value is eliminated ...
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sp_blitz reporting both msdb backup history not purged and purged too frequently
Just downloaded the last version of sp_blitz from github, and have run it on two different database servers.
On both of them it reports both of the following findings:
MSDB Backup History Not Purged
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sp_Blitz - undocumented DBCC events related to the replication marked as a finding
Recently I found in the sp_Blitz output new finding 'Overall Events' in 'DBCC Events' findings group:
15278 DBCC events have taken place between Aug 8 2017 12:15AM and Aug 8 2017 8:17AM. This does ...
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How long does sp_blitz take to execute?
I'm trying to run sp_blitz on SQL Server 2014 and it seems to be taking a long time. What is the normal length?
We only have around 30 databases. One is 300GB, but it's going on for 15 min.
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sp_BlitzFirst - Wait Stats Interpretation
I have some BlitzFirst Wait Stats that look as follows:
Is this the proper way to interpret this? During the 30 second sample, there were a total of 627.1 seconds of IO_Completion waiting, an average ...
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sp_Blitz does not warn "No Alerts for Corruption" if one of 3 is set
I was just setting up the Alert for Corruption.
Error 823
Error 824
Error 825
Before setup:
I just by chance added alert for Error 825 and ran sp_Blitz again. And the message for Finding "No Alert ...
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