Consultant Toolkit

When I first hired Richie over a decade ago, the very first task I assigned him was to build The Consultant Toolkit. I said, “Whenever I’m working with a client, I have to gather the same data over and over. I run scripts like sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzIndex, sp_BlitzFirst, and so on, copy/pasting that data into a…

It’s one thing for me to tell you how much easier The Consultant Toolkit makes my job and how clients love how much I can tell them about their server during the initial sales call – but it’s another thing to hear it from a happy customer: Thought I would share a story, with my…

Yesterday, I got a barrage of emails and LinkedIn messages that went like this: Hey Brent, about your new consultant toolkit: I really love that idea and would want to get my hands on it. Unfortunately i originate in the EU. I know about your reasoning around not selling to EU members and I don’t…

You’re a consultant, and you need to get diagnostic data from your clients’ SQL Servers. You’ve been copy/pasting queries and results from SSMS, trying to save execution plans one by one, wasting time doing manual labor. That stops right now. For years, we’ve had our own slick in-house utility that makes the process way easier.…

When you’re a consultant, you need to get diagnostic data from your clients. When you’re talking to a new sales prospect – do you waste a lot of time asking basic investigation questions like what version they’re on, how much data they have, what kinds of workloads they have? You know they’re not really giving…