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Update available for the SQL Server Health Reports
I am now getting back into things after the holidays. Today I fixed a number of small layout related bugs in the SQL Server health reports. The updated reports are now available for download. Here...
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Sessions Submitted for SQL Saturday #120 Orange County CA
After being approved as a speaker at SQL Saturday 114 – Vancouver BC, and SQL Saturday 108 – Redmond WA, I have decided to give it another shot at SQL Saturday 120 in Orange County California. I have...
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SQL Server Health Report Updated – Top IO added
In preparation for SQL Saturday 114 in Vancouver on March 17th, I have been updating and finalizing the SQL Server Health Reports. The upload today contains the largest number of changes since I...
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SQL Server Health Reports Updated
The SQL Server Health Reports have been updated. As part of preparing for my SQL Saturday 114 presentation next weekend in Vancouver BC, I have updated the SQL Server Health Reports one more time....
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SQL Server Health Reports – Updated
In preparation for my presentation at SQL Saturday in Vancouver BC tomorrow, I have updated the SQL Server Health Reports. As I was preparing for my presentation I discovered a few areas that I wanted...
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A great day at SQL Saturday in Vancouver BC
I spent the day today at SQL Saturday in Vancouver BC. I met some fabulous SQL Server professionals, and presented 2 sessions. The first Session was on Unleashing Common Table Expressions in SQL...
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2 New Reports Added to the SQL Server Health Reports
I added 2 new reports Top Cache Queries and Top CPU Queries into the Server Health Reports. Here is a screen shot of the latest report, the Top CPU Queries report: Enjoy…. The post 2 New Reports Added...
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SQL Server Health Reports — Working on Version 2
Late last year and early this year, I created a collection of report in SSRS that I called SQL Server Health reports. Some of the things that the Server Health report evaluates are the following Index...
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Making Progress on the Server Health Re-write
Originally I implemented the Database Health Reports as a series of SQL Server Reporting Services reports, which was very handy and easy to create, but hard to distribute in a way that they could be...
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Index Defragementation and Management
As I have been creating the Database Health project over the last couple of months, I have discovered that my favorite part of the whole project is the index defragmentation part of the project. This...
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Preview of the Table Size Advisor
As I get the Database Health project ready to release as a beta, more of the components are coming together. For instance shown here is the Table Size Advisor which can be accessed from the Disk Space...
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It is finally here. Beta 1 of the Database Health Reports for SQL Server.
In October last year I started work on the Database Health reports project. It started out as a series of SSRS reports that I released and updated in December 2011 to March 2012. After that it became...
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Finding tables that don’t have a clustered index.
Although clustered indexes are not required, and there are many cases where you should not use a clustered index, quite often clustered indexes can be overlooked when creating a table. This is...
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Beta 2 of the Database Health Reports Released
Beta 2 of the Database Health Reports has just been released. The new Beta contains several bug fixes, and several new features. Here is a breakdown of what is new or changed since the last beta. New...
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Finding the contents of the Plan Cache
I often get asked “how do I find the contents of the SQL Server Plan Cache?” My first response is just use the Database Health Reports and you can get this through a nice user interface. But if you...
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Now that Database Health Beta 2 is out, whats next…
Now that Beta 2 of the Database Health Project is out, and people are using it, I am going to focus my attention on 2 areas. Fixing any bugs that are reported in Beta 2 of the Database Health Project....
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Database Health Beta 9.3 Released Today
Today I had the pleasure of releasing Beta 9.3 of the Database Health Monitor. It has been a whole week since the last beta update, and here is the outline of the new features and bug fixes. Download...
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Understanding your Wait Statistics
SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips – Wait Statistics Wait statistics are one of commonly overlooked ways to quickly find out what is causing your SQL Server to be slow. One of the reasons that they are...
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Max Server Memory – SQL Server
Max Server Memory Setting Explained If you have more memory than your database and applications on the SQL Server will ever use than this is not a problem, but when you run into memory constraints this...
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