Don’t Backup Your SQL Server VMs in Azure
This headline may seem a little aggressive. You may think, Joey, I’ve heard you and other MVPs say that backups are the most important thing ever and I’ll get fired if I don’t have backups. That is very accurate, but when I talk about backups, I am talking about backing up your databases. If you […]
What SQL Server Performance & Management Tools Do I Use?
Several times I’ve been asked what tools are in my performance tuning and SQL Server management arsenal, so I decided to just create this blog to list them out for you. Keep in mind, these are ones I personally use. There are many more out there that the community uses. Feel free to comment with any you may use that is not on my list. Community Tools (Free) Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Scripts- Index Maintenance, Integrity and Backup Scripts https://ola.hallengren.com/sql-server-index-and-statistics-maintenance.html Glenn Berry’s Diagnostic Scripts -Various scripts based on DMVs to extract SQL Performance statistics and information https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/glenn/category/dmv-queries/ Adam… Continue reading