Tag: redgate

Hacking RedGate DLM Dashboard

This is a work-in-progress, but I thought I’d put it out there because it may be interesting to others who use the tool.

This is a “teaser” in that I’m not done writing the content yet, but I wanted to get it out there as “something I’m working on”.  The problem at-hand is that we have a table trigger which is constantly being disabled/enabled by a stored-proc , which in turn controls the only acceptable method of updating the columns that would otherwise be forbidden from update by said trigger.  Clear as mud?  K.  Basically there’s a schema change (“drift”) of a certain specific type that I want DLM Dashboard to always ignore on this DB.

Outline:

  1. Basic architecture
    1. RavenDB back-end
    2. SQL db, tables, procs, & triggers (“installation”)
  2. How it does event tracking
    1. Jessica = awesome support agent
  3. Modifying the event-reader to exclude app-names and other things
    1. XML event data
    2. XML indexes to help filter queries
    3. https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/getting-started-with-xml-indexes/
  4. Schema-compare files to filter results
  5. Wholesale ignoring of a change-set (if possible)

Some code:

USE RedGate;
EXEC dbo.RG_SQLLighthouse_ReadEvents;

SELECT TOP 100 * FROM RedGate.SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events de
ORDER BY de.PostTime

SELECT TOP 100 * FROM RedGate.SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events de
WHERE de.appname NOT IN ('SQLServerCEIP', 'Spotlight Diagnostic Server (Monitoring)')
AND de.appname NOT LIKE 'SQLAgent%'
ORDER BY de.PostTime DESC

ALTER TABLE SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events DROP CONSTRAINT PK__DDL_Even__3213E83FB62EF9A3;

ALTER TABLE SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events ADD CONSTRAINT PK_DDL_Events PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED (id);

CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX CX_DDL_Events_PostTime ON SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events
 (PostTime);

CREATE INDEX IX_DDL_Events_SPID ON RedGate.SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events
 (spid)
 INCLUDE (transaction_id, options, nestlevel);
CREATE INDEX IX_DDL_Events_AppName ON RedGate.SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events
 (appname)
 INCLUDE (client_net_address);

CREATE PRIMARY XML INDEX XI_DDL_Events_EventData ON SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events
 ([eventdata]);

CREATE XML INDEX XI_DDL_Events_EvenData_PATH ON SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events
 ([eventdata])
USING XML INDEX XI_DDL_Events_EventData
 FOR PATH;

CREATE XML INDEX XI_DDL_Events_EvenData_PROPERTY ON SQLLighthouse.DDL_Events
 ([eventdata])
USING XML INDEX XI_DDL_Events_EventData
 FOR PROPERTY;

TBD, stay tuned!