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 that has SQL Server running on it is running low on disk space. It has gone from around 60% disk utilization to 95% disk utilization just overnight. Whats the problem?” In this scenario it’s a …

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Over the years developing Database Health Monitor I have added a number of keyboard shortcuts to make life easier when working in the application.  Some of these are listed here to share since they are not all completely obvious.   Backspace Key – Jump to the last report viewed The Backspace key can be used to jump to the previous …

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Today I had the opportunity to release the May 2017 update of Database Health Monitor. This release is version 2.5.4. There are some new cross-instance reports available to allow you to check on your backup and CheckDB work on all of the instances that you are connected to with Database Health Monitor. Version 2.5.4 Release Notes – May, 2017. Version …

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