Join us for a 30-minute livestream session, next Wednesday July 31, 2024 at 10:30 am, where we’ll explore how Stedman Solutions can safeguard your SQL… Read More »Ensuring SQL Server Stability: How Stedman Solutions Can Assist When Your DBA is on Vacation
As the DBA, you get a call from the IT Team who monitors disk space and they tell you the following: “One of our server… Read More »My SQL Server is Out Of Disk Space!
What was your worst day as a DBA? We all have ups and downs in our life, perhaps some of those bad days are the… Read More »Worst Day as a DBA
What kind of load does the historic monitoring put on the SQL Server? It is my opinion that the historic wait monitoring is perhaps one… Read More »Database Health Monitor – Historic Wait Monitoring
Please join me on Saturday March 16 in Victoria BC Canada for my SQL Saturday presentation on the Basics of Database Corruption Repair. Here is… Read More »Basics of Database Corruption Repair
On March 23rd I will be presenting at SQL Saturday in Spokane WA. There is still time to register for this event, so you can… Read More »SQL Saturday – Spokane WA
On February 9, 2019, I have the privileged of presenting at SQL Saturday in Redmond Washington, at the Microsoft campus. SQL Saturday is a free… Read More »SQL Saturday – Redmond 2019
Today Episode 91 released and it is our pleasure to present this episode on DBA Tools. DBA Tools is an open source project (http://DBATools.io) that provides a number of powershell scripts to better help the DBA perform common SQL Server tasks. This was a fun episode with the panel of Chrissy, Rob, Constantine, and Aaron who were super excited to talk with us and we loved their energy.
We all want an easy button. It is human nature. We heard quite a bit about how easy PowerShell will make everything, but for those of us who aren’t programmers, it can be a bit intimidating to get started. The PowerSHell tools from dbatools.io are shaping up to be the closest thing to an easy button for DBAs. On this episode we invited some of the team to chat with us about their tool, how they got started and the types of problems they are looking to solve.
“The features that are now inside of DBA tools, honestly, I would describe them as really awesome.” – Constantine
“I promised you this is the best code ever used and that you will ever have.” – Aaron
“It is important to us that people do feel welcomed and that their codes gets merged in.” – Chrissy
Read More »Podcast Episode 91: DBA Tools – Listen and find out what you are missing.
One of those services that I offer is on call help for DBA’s who encounter database corruption. Call me anytime 24/7 and as long as you are an existing customer, or we can work out a billing arrangement to turn you into a paying customer, I can help.
That’s all a good if you are familiar with what database corruption is. But based on the occasional phone call that I receive based on my outreach to help with database corruption, it makes me think that I haven’t done the best job describing what corruption is.
A few minutes ago at 12:15am, my phone rings, I was sound asleep but it woke me up and I answered it. Still a bit groggy I hear a voice on the other end asking “Are you the one who can help with database corruption removal?” to which I answer yes. He then goes into a story about how he has just been fingerprinted and he wasn’t supposed to be arrested. He goes on to describe how he didn’t feel that he should have been arrested, but the police officers have told him that now that his fingerprints are in the database, there isn’t anything they can do to undo it. I break in with “sorry that’s not the type of work I do”, and he continues to request my help to to get his fingerprints out of the database and remove his arrest record. I end the call, and hope that this wasn’t his one phone call that he is allowed when he was being booked.
Today we released the Database Health Monitor January 2017 version. You can download it for free at http://DatabaseHealth.com/Download.
This update includes some new branding with new logos, new icons, and a new splash screen, as well as the usual feature enhancements and bug fixes.
So far since we started tracking downloads there have been 11,100 downloads of Database Health Monitor worldwide.
As part of our goal of improving Database Health Monitor, and expanding it to meet the needs of more and more DBA’s, we have created a survey to solicit input on how people are using it, and what we can do better to improve the product. The survey is located here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TJLJDXH
Here is the list of changes in the latest release.
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