By Nicholas Gianadda

Professional Association for SQL Server

Tear into SQL Server with Brent Ozar’s sp_Blitz

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What is Sp_Blitz

sp_Blitz is a Microsoft SQL Server instance health

script create by Brent Ozar. It uses system views,

DMVs and other state tracking tables to diagnose

common problems with configuration, security and

performance.

Your SQL Server isn’t

going to maintain itself

Maintenance on a SQL

server will help your systems

remain fast and secure

So, what makes

sp_Blitz so GREAT?

There are many tools out there that

can show you diagnostic

information about your SQL server.

Sp_Blitz takes this concept one

step further by including priorities to

clue you in to which items you

should focus on and direct links to

articles on www.brentozar.com that

explain the issue in great detail and

shows you how to resolve it!

What does it look like?

Or This

Why should I use it?

• One time checkup

• Trending your server

• Finding Security flaws

• Great Articles and

Videos to explain the

issues

Now What? I love what I found and I would like to receive this info weekly!!!

• Setup sp_Blitz as a SQL Job

• For emails, use the following parameters:

@EmailRecipients VARCHAR(MAX) = NULL

@EmailProfile sysname = NULL

• Log to a table, use the following parameters:

@OutputDatabaseName NVARCHAR(128) = NULL

@OutputSchemaName NVARCHAR(256) = NULL

@OutputTableName NVARCHAR(256) = NULL

Now What? I love what I found and I would like to receive this info weekly!!!

• Setup sp_Blitz as a SQL Job

• For emails, use the following parameters:

@EmailRecipients VARCHAR(MAX) = NULL

@EmailProfile sysname = NULL

• Log to a table, use the following parameters:

@OutputDatabaseName NVARCHAR(128) = NULL

@OutputSchemaName NVARCHAR(256) = NULL

@OutputTableName NVARCHAR(256) = NULL

What else can I do?

• There are tons of options for keeping an eye on

your server and digging into problems, Here are

a few of my favorites

SQLjobviz

• Visually

review the

history of

your SQL

jobs to see

when they

run and if

they were

successful

SQL Sentry Plan Explorer

• Additional

tool to quickly

identify and

help solve

issues with

your queries