Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for December 2022

Santa’s elves took a break from building toys and shipped a new version of the First Responder Kit. There are some great improvements in here, like a makeover for sp_BlitzLock and much better PSPO compatibility for sp_BlitzCache. Wanna watch me use it? Take the class. To get the new version: Download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip Azure…
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Brent Ozar's Consultant Toolkit

Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for January 2022

In this release, sp_Blitz shows some information about clusters and AGs, sp_AllNightLog and sp_DatabaseRestore get some love, and more. Wanna watch me use it? Take the class. To get the new version: Download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip Azure Data Studio users with the First Responder Kit extension: ctrl/command+shift+p, First Responder Kit: Import. PowerShell users: run Install-DbaFirstResponderKit…
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for December 2020

sp_BlitzLock gets better identification of parallel deadlocks, sp_DatabaseRestore uses Ola’s scripts for logging, and lots of bug fixes this month. Watch and learn To get the new version: Download the updated FirstResponderKit.zip Azure Data Studio users with the First Responder Kit extension: ctrl/command+shift+p, First Responder Kit: Import. PowerShell users: run Install-DbaFirstResponderKit from dbatools Download the…
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for September 2020

Let’s give a big round of virtual germ-free applause to Adrian Buckman, Erik Darling, Garry Bargsley, Greg Dodd, Ian Manton, John McCall, Kuldar Andares, Pierre Letter, Stephen Anslow, Tom Butler, and Walden Leverich for volunteering their time to help make your job easier this month. Thanks to them, the September release is chock full of features – I’m not even going to try to sum…
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Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for August 2020

First Responder Kit Updates
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A couple of big new features this month: sp_Blitz’s @SkipChecksServer parameter lets you centralize a list of checks that you want to skip across different servers, and sp_BlitzIndex’s missing index recommendation list now includes the datatypes, making it easier to do index analysis for clients even when you’re not connected to their servers. I have…
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