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• Making Use of Plan Explorer in my own Environment

  Back in October 2010, I briefly blogged about the SQL Sentry Plan Explorer in my blog post wrap up for SQL Bits 7 and how impressed I was with what I saw from a Alpha demo standpoint from Greg Gonzalez ( Blog | Twitter ) while I was at SQLBits 7 in York.  Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:50 PM by Jonathan Kehayias | 4 Comments Filed under: Database Administration, Plan Explorer, Product Reviews, SQL Sentry

• Are you performing Backup’s of all your SQL Databases? If you think so, you might think again!

  Backups are one of the most fundamental parts of being a good SQL Server DBA.  Nothing matters as much as being able to recover from disaster.  As a DBA I am constantly checking if my backups exist, completed correctly and are available for Read More... Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:57 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 3 Comments Filed under: Product Reviews

• Product Reviews: Tools for the SQL Server DBA

  In the last year, I've had been contacted by almost every vendor for Database Administration tools for SQL Server to try out there application for monitoring SQL Server in my environment.  While interested in giving the applications a look, I really Read More... Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 1:33 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 10 Comments Filed under: Product Reviews

• SQL Server Management Studio Addins - would you use them?

  There are already quite a few Addin's for SQL Server Management Studio online, most are free or donation like the SSMS Tools Pack , Allocation SQL Server Management Studio Add-in , or the SSMS Addins on Codeplex.  Today I got an alert from Google Read More... Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:59 AM by Jonathan Kehayias | 5 Comments Filed under: Product Reviews