by Marcin Gminski | Jan 21, 2021
I get a lot of emails with concerns that some of you have very strict security and locked-down environments which prevent you from installing SQLWATCH. At the same time, some of you would have preferred the central repository to connect directly to the remote instance...
by Marcin Gminski | Jan 18, 2021
The identity value in relational databases is a field that increases automatically. It is often used to create surrogate primary keys. Surrogate keys Surrogate keys are meaningless and are only used to uniquely identify the row, not the data itself. For example,...
by Marcin Gminski | Jan 14, 2021
I recently came across a tweet by Brent Ozar who touched on a very important aspect of performance monitoring. A subject that is not always well understood and can lead to misleading results. The impact of aggregation on granularity and thus observability....
by Marcin Gminski | Jan 7, 2021
The observer effect is a term used in physics and it means that observing a phenomenon changes that phenomenon. Therefore, an object that is being observed, is looking different to the same, not observed object. How is this possible? In physics, this is to do with...
by Marcin Gminski | Dec 31, 2020
Hey SQLWatchers, First of all, thank you for the growing community and for using SQLWATCH. SQLWATCH has reached over 10000 downloads. This does not include source code downloads and offline installations. I am myself aware of many places that download the release or...
by Marcin Gminski | Dec 24, 2020
In the previous post, I have explained how to configure SQLWATCH To send simple, plain text notifications to Microsoft Teams. How to send notification to Microsoft Teams Today, we are going to look at how to send formatted cards: Microsoft Teams Cards Action templates...
by Marcin Gminski | Dec 17, 2020
Some time ago we discussed how to send notifications to Microsoft Teams: How to send notification to Microsoft Teams In this post, we are going to look at doing the same with Slack. The only difference between these two platforms is in the payload they expect. Beyond...
by Marcin Gminski | Dec 10, 2020
I am happy to announce that thanks to our fantastic SQL Server Community it is now possible to deploy SQLWATCH using dbatools. If you work with SQL Server and are not familiar with dbatools you should check it out now, it will change your DBA life forever. With...
by Marcin Gminski | Dec 3, 2020
I have been meaning to write how to integrate SQLWATCH with different platforms for a long time. Recently a very kind person bought me a coffee and said they have implemented Microsoft Teams integration which motivated me to finalise it. Hi Marcin, love your...
by Marcin Gminski | Jun 10, 2020
Fixed an issue where table utilisation was not being collected for databases other than SQLWATCH. As all tables are being processed now, the execution time for [dbo].[usp_sqlwatch_logger_disk_utilisation_table] may increase considerably. Please test it in...
