Find the Head Blocker Behind a Month of Blocking
Stop guessing from one bad afternoon. Rank every head blocker by the session time it held up over 7 or 30 days, and spot open transactions.
Year: 2026
Veterans Day Offer: Free Onboarding Session with Database Health Monitor for Veterans
This Veterans Day, we are proud to honor and express our sincere gratitude to all those who have served in the military, including the dedicated Veterans who contribute their expertise and commitment to our team here at Database Health Monitor. From November 11th through November 17th, we are excited to provide a special complimentary offer exclusively for Veterans who purchase a Database Health Monitor subscription: a free one-hour onboarding session led directly by members of the Database Health Monitor development …
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Database Health Monitor 4.1869: 33 New Reports That Put Your History to Work, Plus Printing and PDF
Version 4.1869 adds 33 reports built on the monitoring history, printing and PDF from every page, more Dashboards tiles, HA/DR and Agent job history, and 973 fixes.
Database Health Monitor 4.1818: Build Your Own Dashboards, Plus 9 New Reports and Pop-Out Windows
Version 4.1818 adds custom dashboards with a tile for every instance report, 9 new reports, pop-out report windows, a Patch Currency report and 672 fixes.
Stedmans SQL School November Deals: Big Discounts on SQL Server Training
Hey there. If you have been putting off sharpening your database skills because of high course costs, demanding work schedules, or uncertainty about where to begin, let me give you the clear nudge you need. November has arrived, and with it comes the annual tradition at Stedmans SQL School where I open the vault and make premium SQL Server training far more accessible than ever before. This is not a marketing gimmick. It is a deliberate month-long event designed to …
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Halloween pumpkins in the forest
Happy Halloween
As the jack-o’-lanterns glow and the costumes come out, Halloween brings its share of thrills and chills. But here at Stedman Solutions, we’re declaring one thing off-limits for scares: SQL Server. That’s right—your databases don’t need to be spooky on October 31st, or any other day. Think about it. Ghosts in the machine? Haunting query errors that appear out of nowhere? Those are the real horrors we banish with solid SQL Server management. No need for exorcisms when you have …
Database Health Monitor 4.1796: 28 New Reports for Finding the Queries That Cost You
Version 4.1796 adds 28 query tuning reports, the Query Card, an active blocking alert, tray application help and 649 fixes.
Blocking Query Monitor – Part of Database Health
Hello everyone, today, I’m excited to share with you a feature of the Database Health Monitor software that I’ve developed: The Blocking Query Monitor. Watch this video by Steve Stedman to find out more. Understanding and addressing performance bottlenecks in SQL Server is not always an easy task, and one of the biggest contributors to these bottlenecks is often blocking queries. That’s why I’ve built the Blocking Query Monitor. The Blocking Query Monitor is a powerful tool specifically designed to …
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Database Health Monitor 4.1792: Smarter Exports, Server Recovery Pages, Themes and a New Password Policy Check
Everything in Database Health Monitor 4.1792: an export that asks what the file contains, a recovery page and tree badges for servers that will not connect, a Theme menu with Follow Windows, accessible 10x controls, a new Quick Scan check for SQL logins with the password policy off, and 527 fixes.
Evaluating a SQL Server Monitor With Sample Data
The advice to point a monitor at a real server first is wrong. Here is how sample data, the connect card and the tour work, and what each one does not tell you.