Turns Out DBAs Use the Consultant Toolkit, Too


When I first hired Richie over a decade ago, the very first task I assigned him was to build The Consultant Toolkit.

I said, “Whenever I’m working with a client, I have to gather the same data over and over. I run scripts like sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzIndex, sp_BlitzFirst, and so on, copy/pasting that data into a spreadsheet for later review. Then I run sp_BlitzCache a bunch of different ways to get their most resource-intensive queries, and I have to save the query plans off one by one for later review. It’s a lot of manual labor, and that costs money. Can