Over the last 4 years I have been working on the Database Health Monitor. I am about a week away from releasing Version 2, which will finally be out of the beta process. In preparation for the release I am …

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Here is a short video that shows how to convert those ugly derived table (SubQuery) queries into a common table expression to help clean up your TSQL code. This applies to Common Table Expressions on Microsoft SQL Server, and the …

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Today I have released beta 9 of the Database Health Monitor. It has been 27 months since the release of Database Health Beta 1, and almost 4 years since the original SSRS implementation of Database Health reports. To be honest …

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  Related Common Table Expression Links Sample Database for Common Table Expressions Writing Your First Common Table Expression with SQL Server Video: Writing Your First CTE with SQL Server Common Table Expressions – Terminating the Previous Statement CTE Scope Introduction …

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Today marks the 1000th download of the Database Health Reports in the last 11 months since Beta 1 was released. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to recap on the history of the database health report application. First …

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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 clear that the …

It is finally here. Beta 1 of the Database Health Reports for SQL Server. Read more »