These are my top 5 Free tools (Other than SSMS) for a new SQL Server DBA or for those accidental DBA’s. There is one tool that I usually spend money on instead of going the free route, and that’s a monitoring and alerting tool. SQL Sentry is usually my go to but do your research …
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STOP! THINK! ACT! New and Old DBAs alike have often relied on the Ola Hallengren maintenance solution. For those that are fairly new to the maintenance plans you may come across a situation where you looked for why a backup or integrity job failed. Typically a DBA will start off by looking at the Job …
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Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope that you are able to learn something new while you are here. Feel free to leave a comment. I am always happy to talk about SQL Server database administration and would love to help in any way I can. I intend to make the majority of these …
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