This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Jens Vestergaard (b|t) and he wants to know what the essential SQL Server tools are in my stack.
Aside from being nosy, this is a great topic to get a poll of some obvious, and not so obvious, productivity tools used by much smarter people than myself.
Ever want to know the full folder structure for all your servers in your central management server?
Does your database have leaky connections? It may be slowly killing your performance! Or fastly. Either way killing is bad.
I decided to be lazy and write something quick and dirty to get the metadata from the msdb backup tables. What had started small and simple, wound up becoming more complicated.
SQL Saturday Boston was the most exciting, rewarding and terrifying thing I’ve done in a long time. I learned a lot about myself, SQLFamily and the sheer magnitude of work that goes into these events, by all involved.
