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 submitted 2 abstracts for sessions: The first one is titled Unleashing Common Table Expressions in SQL Server, and if accepted this will be …

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In preparation for an upcoming SQL Saturday presentation I have created another report to add to the FREE SQL Server Health reports project. The new Index Statistics Report is the 8th report in the series, intended to give DBA’s and database developers access to the information they need to analyze the health of their database.   Here is a screen …

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In preparation for an upcoming SQL Saturday presentation I have created another report to add to the FREE SQL Server Health reports project. This report has been replaced with the Backup Report in the Database Health Project. The Backup Set Report has been added to the SQL Health Reports.  The Backup Set Report  is the 7th report to be added to the Database …

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In preparation for a SQL Saturday presentation I have created another report to add to the FREE SQL Server Health reports project.   The Database Size Report has been added to the SQL Health Reports.  The Database Size Report  is the 6th report to be added to the Database Health Reports package. The Database Health reports package is a FREE …

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After creating and deploying the duplicate indexes report earlier today I discovered that although the report did exactly what it says, it didn’t do what I needed. The earlier  duplicate indexes report only found indexes that were an exact match on the columns.  And that is useful to track down, it didn’t point out indexes that were similar, but had additional columns. …

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After yesterdays Long Running Queries Report, I have decided to add one more SQL Server Health report. A duplicate indexes report has been added to the Server Health reports. With this report you can track down time waste associated with duplicate indexes. Here is a sample of the new free report. This is part of my growing collection of free SSRS reports to …

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