Consolidating Your SQL Server Environment On-Premises: Q&A

In this blog post, we answer questions from our webinar “Consolidating Your SQL Server Environment On-Premises.” Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

5 Surprising Lessons Every SQL Server Generalist Has to Learn

Webinar Recap Maybe you are an accidental DBA who has recently been assigned responsibility for the SQL Server, on-premises or in the cloud. Maybe you are a generalist who can keep the SQL Server up and running, but don’t know much about how it works. Or maybe you are just starting in your career and want to learn more. Whatever situation applies to you, there are a handful of very important lessons you will have to learn if you administrate a SQL Server. I recently teamed up with Denny Cherry (@mrdenny), of Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting (DCAC, @dcacco), for a … [Read more...]

Webinar Follow-Up: Top 5 SQL Server Challenges Automated with PowerShell

In this webinar recap, Kevin Kline shares the Q&A portion of the SentryOne webinar: Top 5 SQL Server Challenges Automated with PowerShell. Click HERE to read more. … [Read more...]

History of PASS, Part 2: Assembling the Original Board of Directors

Kevin Kline shares more about the history of PASS and the assembling of the original board of directors. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Delivers a Win-Win on Price-Performance

With Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SentryOne, migrate to Azure with confidence and receive breakthrough cloud analytics performance at the best price. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

A Historical Account of the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS), Part 1: Foundation

A Historical Account of the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS), Part 1: Foundation from Kevin Kline. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Webinar Follow-Up: Setting SQL Server Performance Baselines and Alerts

Kevin Kline shares the Q&A from our recent "Setting SQL Server Performance Baselines and Alerts" webinar and highlights additional resources you can reference on the topic of baselining and alerting. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

SQL Sentry Essentials: Powerful Database Performance Monitoring for 5 or Fewer SQL Server Instances

SQL Sentry Essentials is now available. SQL Sentry Essentials is a new SQL Sentry edition that provides essential performance monitoring for up to 5 database instances. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

DBTA – Azure SQL Database Edge

Maybe you are still getting up-to-speed with the whole concept of cloud computing. If so, I have a lot of sympathy for you because there is so much to learn and because cloud technologies advance so rapidly. Here’s one more important concept to add to that pile of things to learn—edge computing. The good news is that edge computing is a technology designed to answer the very specific use-case of high-performance IoT applications. If you don’t have IoT applications in-house or your organization never will have them, then you can safely skip this discussion. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Webinar Follow-Up: Top 4 Data Technology Trends for DBAs in 2019

Kevin Kline shares the Q&A from our recent webinar, The Top 4 Data Technology Trends Every DBA Should Know About in 2019. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]