From now on, I'm going to be releasing annual versions of the First Responder Kit, starting with this one, which I'm calling the First Responder Kit 2026. I'll still release more frequently on Github, but I won't be blogging about it here. I want to make it easier for folks who don't update that often.…
If there was ever a release you should skip for reliability reasons, it's this one. There's a lot of AI-edited code in here. I'm really only putting it out there because I want to let early adopters start playing around with a few new things: sp_BlitzIndex adds an @AI parameter to get index consolidation advice…
For the last few years, I've slowed the First Responder Kit release down to once per quarter. It felt pretty feature-complete, and I didn't want to make y'all upgrade any more than you have to. You're busy, and I don't want to take up your time unless there's something really big to gain from doing an upgrade.
Two big sets of news this month! The Consultant Toolkit now supports imports to a database so you can track your clients' health and performance over time, and sp_BlitzCache has a new @AI parameter.
Set @AI = 2, and get a prompt you can copy/paste into the AI of your choice to help you tune the query.
Set @AI = 1, and we'll actually call ChatGPT or Google Gemini for you and return the advice.
First off, I understand if you read the headline and you have a knee-jerk reaction. I totally understand that there are a lot of people out there who hate AI, and believe me, I hate most uses of it. Lots of its advice can be misleading at best, and absolute garbage at worst. However, if…
This quarter's release includes new checks for SQL Server 2025's new memory pressure warnings, Azure SQL DB's operations in progress, accurate CPU usage on Docker containers, warnings about not using partitioned statistics where appropriate, and much more. If you'd like to thank me for my work in maintaining the First Responder Kit, the best way…
This quarter's release includes new checks for SQL Server 2025's new memory pressure warnings, Azure SQL DB's operations in progress, warnings about not using partitioned statistics where appropriate, plus bug fixes.
To get the new version:
I'mma wax philosophical for a second: I love the open source nature of the First Responder Kit because it lets anybody, anywhere, diagnose database problems faster. If you're a full time employee somewhere today, you owe it to yourself to use the FRK scripts because if you ever switch from one company to another, your…
This quarter's release contains a few advanced warnings & tools, like table input for sp_BlitzLock, new warnings about paused resumable index operations that will be deleted automatically by SQL Server 2022, and a new option to maintain carriage returns and line feeds in sp_BlitzCache's output.
To get the new version:
If you've hard-coded installer file names, there's a big change in this release. There are now just 2 installer scripts: Install-All-Scripts.sql, and a new Install-Azure.sql, which only installs the scripts that are compatible with Azure SQL DB. The old Install-Core scripts are gone because we've deprecated sp_AllNightLog, sp_BlitzInMemoryOLTP, and sp_BlitzQueryStore. Read on for why.
