180 – Is It Time For A Turnaround?

What needs to change? The challenge to explore is are there things in your current day to day that needs...

SQL Server database Backup and Restore strategies

One of the most important roles of a database administrator is to constantly protect the integrity of the databases and...

Embeded PowerBI

How to find out whether your database is transactional, analytical or hybrid?

If you are a DBA, especially Infrastructure DBA, Production DBA or Operations DBA then you don't necessarily always know what...

dbachecks – Going parallel – Cut off your execution times

On one of the last clients I have worked, I have implemented dbachecks in order to get the state of...

Gather Always On Configuration using a DMV query

If you were like me, you would know your AG configuration by heart. However, what if you get busy with...

Check health and status of Availability Group using DMVs

-- Health and status of WSFC cluster. These two queries work only if the WSFC has quorumSELECT*FROMsys.dm_hadr_clusterSELECT*FROMsys.dm_hadr_cluster_members

-- Health of the AGsSELECT...

Securing Test and Dev Environments at the SQL Privacy Summit

Redgate Software is putting on a one day SQL Privacy  Summit on May 18 in London at the Grange Tower...

SQL Server 2016 – SQL Server Telemetry \ CEIP Services

CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) is somethings runs from ages and almost each vendor perform it to collect product usage...

SQL Saturday Wheeling 2018

Third time in a month, I will be presenting Machine Learning Server, this time at SQL Saturday Wheeling