by Marcin Gminski | Sep 16, 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 | Sep 9, 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 | Sep 2, 2021
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 | Aug 26, 2021
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 | Aug 19, 2021
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 | Aug 12, 2021
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...
