by Marcin Gminski | Mar 2, 2021
A lot of database administrators and developers like to use the SQL Server Management Studio to make changes to the database schema directly. As a production DBA, I can definitely say that there are situations where this is acceptable and even desired, however,... by Marcin Gminski | Feb 23, 2021
This is now part of dbatools.io and has more features! Go get the latest version and watch this space as there are more graphs to come! Concept Continuing from my previous post: SQL Server Performance Dashboard Using PowerBI, another important element of performance... by Marcin Gminski | Feb 16, 2021
Concept You may have come across a term multi-tiered storage. This means, that the storage solution has multiple arrays, fast and expensive and slow but cheap. Files accessed very frequently are stored on very fast SSD disks, files accessed less frequently are stored... by Marcin Gminski | Feb 9, 2021
Abstract PowerBI Desktop is a data analytics and presentation tool. Defining data sets is very easy and usually involves creating connection string to the source data and defining objects to pull data from. Alternatively, for SQL databases we can write custom SQL... by Marcin Gminski | Feb 2, 2021
As data professionals, we often need test data, whether for functional testing, to satisfy business logic criteria or for non-functional, to satisfy performance requirements. We must also not store any sensitive or personal information in non-production systems and... by Marcin Gminski | Jan 26, 2021
This project has become so popular that I decided to give it its own home: SQLWATCH.IO. Thank you #SQLFamily! Introduction I often help improve the performance of a SQL Server or an application. Performance metrics in SQL Server are exposed via Dynamic Management...