Today I launched Database Health Reports Beta 8 as a soft launch. What I mean by the soft launch is that other than updating the DatabaseHealth website and this blog posting, I haven’t done much to promote it. Why you might ask? Due to it being a holiday week between Christmas and New Years, there are many people out of …
Again following the Agile philosophy of Release Early and Release Often, there is another minor release of Database Health Beta 7. I called this one Beta 7++, the version has been updated to 1.99.7.512. In this version the following minor features were added based on customer feedback and requests. 1. When filtering the Technical Debt by a specific type, which …
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One of the ideas behind Scrum software development is the idea of “Release early, Release Often and Get Customer Feedback.” After the release of Beta 7 of the Database Health Reports earlier this week I received an email with a really great suggestion that I just had to implement. The suggestion was to be able to click on the debt …
I have been working on Beta 7 over the last 3 months, and it is finally ready. Beta 7 has been released today featuring the addition of the SQL Technical Debt reporting. Besides the SQL Technical debt reporting, the other area of major improvement was the overall performance of the application. There are many areas that previously were slow or difficult …
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As I get ready for Beta 7 to launch I have decided that for Beta 8 I will focus on feature suggestions from the users of the Database Health application. I have created a feedback system for users to suggest their ideas, then they can be voted on with the star rating. Users can comment on the ideas. If you would …
As Beta 7 of the Database Health Reports approaches is just three weeks, the big new feature that has been added is the SQL Technical Debt Analysis. The SQL Technical Debt Analysis a great check for those areas that are known problems when working on SQL Server. But what if I like the GOTO statement? All of the Database Health …
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 I would like to thank everyone who has downloaded Database Health Reports application. Thank You! Here is a quick history, …
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As part of my contribution back to the SQL Server community I am adding a new feature into the free Database Health Reports application. I am currently working on adding a new feature into the Database Health Reports to analyze T-SQL Technical Debt. If you are not familiar with technical debt, it applies to all aspects of programming or technology. This is going to …
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I received this rave today about the Database Health Reports. It has been posted on the Raving Fans page. 7/17/2013 – Beta 6 Rave The software is really good, I am using very regularly to audit and performance tune the SQL instances that I administer. Managed to knock a third of a large SSIS pipeline’s runtime just from using the …
Technical Debt is a programming concept that is also known as code debt. The concept of Technical Debt applies closely with Agile software development, but also applies to database development. There are many tools available to report on technical debt for C#, PHP or other programming languages, but there isn’t much available to manage the SQL Server or T-SQL technical …