February Blog Post Wrap-up

Day 1 – Database by Size

10 Days of Reports with Database Health Monitor Day 1 – Database by Size The databases by size report is a quick and easy way to see which databases on your SQL Server are the largest. The chart shows the … Read more…

Current Coupon Codes

25% OFF SQL Server Backup and Recovery Course Coupon Code: BACKUPFEB Expires: February 28th at 11:59pm This complete course will help you determine if you have a sufficient backup strategy and restore plan OR it will help you build on … Read more…

Coming Soon …..

New Stedman Solutions Online Course Coming Soon! What is the course about? I thought you’d never ask! Our new course will teach you how to track blocking queries on our SQL Server. This course will be released sometime early next … Read more…

Database Health Monitor – New Tree View Report

Earlier this week we released Version 994 release of Database Health Monitor with a number of new report formats that I have created and replaced several of the boring pie charts. Here are a few before and after comparisons between … Read more…

Database Health Monitor – New Half Donut Report

In the Version 994 release of Database Health Monitor this week there are a number of new report formats that I have created and replaced several of the boring pie charts. Here are a few before and after comparisons between … Read more…

Database Health Monitor Version 994 Released Today

February 2022 – Version 994 Release Notes The February 2022 release of Database Health Monitor includes bug fixes and feature enhancements. There is a massive amount of chart and visualization changes in this update. Here is an example of on … Read more…

Backup Retention – Part 3 of 3

Version 994 Release Notes The February 2022 release of Database Health Monitor includes bug fixes and feature enhancements. There is a massive amount of chart and visualization changes in this update. Here is an example of on … Read more…

SQL Daily Monitoring – SQL Server Versions for January

Here listed is the current percentages of SQL server versions running our Daily Check up with Database Health Monitor.

Click here to read Part 1 Click here to read Part 2 Incremental Method This method has a few names and is fairly simple to implement. It involves determining how long you wish to maintain a copy of your dat Read more…

Common Corruption

Some typical corruption scenarios we see: After starting SQL Server your database is in a Recovery Pending state, and it stays that way. After starting SQL Server your database is in Suspect mode. Running a query may throw errors about … Read more…

Is my SQL backup plan good enough?

So you have a backup for your SQL Server but are you certain it’s good enough for your business needs? Are you 100% sure you’ve configured your backup and restore plan correctly? If you answered No or Maybe to either … Read more…

SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2019 – What’s the difference?

I was working with a client just the other day that has several SQL Server 2000 servers still in mission critical production environments, and a couple of newer versions of SQL Server 2005, 2016, 2019. Not often do I admit … Read more…