Bill's SQL Server Blog

Running GO as a Windows Service

Lately I've been spending time writing GO (or GOLANG) applications. I'm a big fan of the language. Often what I write needs to run as a »

ELK (or Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) is taking over one of my clients. And I have to admit it's a very handy tool. They are pushing »

I have finally jumped on the Extended Events bandwagon. It was tough to pry Trace and Profiler from my cold, legacy hands! But I'm mostly there. »

It's finally time to push another release of Is It SQL out the door. This has a few big features I've been working on. Backups First, »

Today, through various snafus and situations, I found myself waiting a LONG time for a lock to clear up. Here's how I got an alert to »

I'd like to tell you this release has some great unifying theme. It doesn't. It's just a bunch of things I felt like fixing. But let's »

It's finally time to push Is It SQL 1.0.25 out the door. I sent it to the newsletter subscribers last week and we haven't »

The latest release of Is It SQL now shows missing backups. Backups The top section gives you a summary of all servers with missing backups and »

One of my clients has applications that use MSDTC. We’re spinning up a SQL Server 2016 Availability Group to take advantage of the MSDTC support »

The latest release of Is It SQL is out and includes a variety of features. I’d like to start with some screen shots of previous »