
Hi, I’m David Wiseman.
I’m a SQL Server DBA that enjoys performance tuning and spend most of my time writing and tuning T-SQL code. This is my personal blog site to share my experience, scripts and tools with the community.
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DBA Dash
Open Source SQL Server Monitoring tool. Just released!

Latest Posts
- T-SQL Tuesday #186 – Managing Agent JobsFor T-SQL Tuesday #186, Andy Levy asks, “How do you manage and/or monitor your SQL Server Agent jobs?” This is a great opportunity for me to discuss how DBA Dash can help monitor SQL Agent jobs. DBA Dash is a free and open-source monitoring tool for SQL Server, created by me. It’s used to monitor… Read more: T-SQL Tuesday #186 – Managing Agent Jobs
- Removing large backup history with sp_delete_backuphistoryProblem In SQL Server, the sp_delete_backuphistory stored procedure is is the standard and supported method to purge old data from the backup and restore history tables in the msdb database: Recently, I encountered an issue running sp_delete_backuphistory on servers that hosted a large number of databases with frequent log backup & restore operations. The clean… Read more: Removing large backup history with sp_delete_backuphistory