Steve Stedman

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Last chance saving on Database Health Monitor Sun, 30 Jul 2023 You only have until the end of the day to get this Database Health Monitor discount of 25% off. This month marks the anniversary of Database Health Monitor. To celebrate I am offering 25% off the licensing fee for th Read more… Database Health Monitor with Coaching Fri, 28 …

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You only have until the end of the day to get this Database Health Monitor discount of 25% off. This month marks the anniversary of Database Health Monitor. To celebrate I am offering 25% off the licensing fee for the annual subscription for Database Health Monitor but this deal is only good when you purchase before the end of July. …

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With years of development into Database Health Monitor, there are many features there for many difference scenarios from performance to security, to overall server health. With this month being Database Health Montior month we have a special combo offering. I created the Database Health Monitor course to help people get the most value out of using the product, and with …

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Wait statistics, in the context of SQL Server, refer to the amount of time that a query spends waiting to access data in the database. When a client application requests data from the database, the request is placed in a queue and the client application must wait for its turn to access the data. The time that the query spends …

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You only have until the end of the month to get this Database Health Monitor discount of 25% off. This month marks the anniversary of Database Health Monitor. To celebrate I am offering 25% off the licensing fee for the annual subscription for Database Health Monitor but this deal is only good when you purchase before the end of July. …

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Stedman Solutions, LLC, under the stewardship of Steve and his adept team, has crafted an innovative, email-based performance tuning course. With more than a year worth of training, this program is designed to optimize your SQL Server’s capabilities, offering weekly tips and techniques for enhanced performance. Join an elite community of subscribers endeavoring to inject newfound horsepower into their SQL …

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The SQL Performance Viewer is one of the many features in Database Health Monitor intended to help you find performance issues on your SQL Server. As part of Database Health Monitor month, I have put together this short video showing the SQL Performance Viewer in action. Just one of the many features of Database Health Monitor. Have you tried it …

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Each month we report on the most common waits that we see reported by our daily monitoring customers. All the data is sanitized, so there is no private client information to expose here. For this month, here are the details. PREEMPTIVE_OS_PIPEOPS CXCONSUMER CXPACKET MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT OLEDB LCK_M_U ASYNC_NETWORK_IO XE_LIVE_TARGET_TVF LCK_M_IX TRACEWRITE Our daily monitoring product scans your SQL Server hourly and …

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