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Make Your Application's Name Heard

Andy Levy
Odds are, you’ve got more than one application or script accessing your database or SQL Server instance at any given time. You’re probably stacking them on a small number of servers in an attempt to cut down on licensing costs and resource usage. All those PowerShell scripts running on the central job server are running under a single service account, and you’ve got a lazy vendor who set up both the website and back-end application server to run under the same account, maybe even on a single app/web server.

Hello GETDATE() My Old Friend...

Andy Levy
So you’ve decided that your new web application needs to record some page load time metrics so you can keep tabs on performance. Terrific! You set up a couple page load/complete functions to write to a logging table when a page request comes in, and then update the record when it finishes loading. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 INSERT INTO PageLogs ( RequestTime ,ResponseTime ,RemoteIP ,UserName ,PageId ,Parameters ,SessionId ) VALUES ( GETDATE() ,NULL ,127.