We have a special topic for today, where we talk about our own managed DBA service, and how we ended up choosing SentryOne SQL Sentry as our go-to monitoring platform for SQL Servers.

Relevant links with more details:

• DBSmart - The Managed DBA Service from Madeira Data Solutions
• SentryOne SQL Sentry
• clr_http_request - CLR assembly to send HTTP web requests from within SQL Server
• Case study - UPDATE STATISTICS causing TempDB stress and Availability Group fail-overs
• Madeira Data Solutions is a SentryOne Partner