Announcing Sp_WhoIsBlocking
This is a tongue in cheek post, basically highlighting a cool feature in sp_whoisactive, and how I created a wrapper for it to make my life easier. I am a …
Persist And Aggregate Index Stats Across Server Restarts
(This script is part of my SQL Server Metrics Pack project that is now available on GitHub. If you like the code below and find it useful, I encourage you to check …
Getting Alerts From SQL Sentry When You Don’t Have Email
I use SentryOne’s SQL Sentry for my SQL Server monitoring, and it does an excellent job. However I recently had a situation where I was unable to get email alerts …
Using PowerShell To Store sp_BlitzIndex Results In A Table
I really like Brent Ozar’s sp_BlitzIndex procedure. It offers a lot of great insight into the indexes in your databases. If you are not currently using it, you should check it …
Finding Recurring Index Fragmentation Issues
One of the nice things about Ola Hallengren’s maintenance solution is that it has the option to log its operations to a table. This gives you ability to do a …
Online SQL Formatting Service
I stumbled upon this last week and thought I would share it. SQLFormat is a free online formatter for SQL statements. It’s pretty straight forward and easy to use. You …
Tool For Parsing Ouput from Statistics IO and Statistics Time
I’ve been using this tool for quite for some time and thought it was worth passing on. Statistics Parser allows you to paste in the output of Statistics IO and/or Statistics Time …
Useful Tools: sp_whoisactive
One incredibly useful SQL Server tool that I often forget about is Adam Machanic’s sp_whoisactive procedure. The reason I say I forget about it is that it is not something that I …
SQL Server Maintenance Scripts
When it comes to everyday routine maintenance of your SQL Server databases, you can’t beat Ola Hallengren’s SQL Server Maintenance Solution. Focusing on SQL Server Backups, SQL Server Integrity Checks, and SQL Server …
Standalone SQL Server Management Studio
Microsoft has released a new standalone version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). As with previous versions of SSMS, you still get it bundled with your SQL Server install, but with this …