SQL Saturday on Monday

The idea to organize SQL Saturday is so exiting and scary at the same time. For me - this is my first SQL Saturday. For SQL Saturday - this is a first time in Israel. All my religious and not so religious friends are energetically making…

Alert visualization recipe: Get out your blender, drop in some sp_send_dbmail, Google Charts API, add your favorite colors and sprinkle with html. Blend till it’s smooth and looks pretty enough to taste.

I really like database monitoring. My email inbox have a constant flow of different types of alerts coming from our production servers with all kinds of information, sometimes more useful and sometimes less useful. Usually database alerts…