PSBlitz v3.3.0

What's new:

Enhancements

• PSBlitz was updated with the August 20th release of Brent's First Responder Kit - #98
• PSBlitz now outputs execution plans for queries involved in deadlocks if the plans are still in the plan cache. - #102
• Deadlock query text in the HTML output will now appear in its own table for easier reading - #100
• A new report page has been added to both HTML and Excel output for the new sp_BlitzLock result set containing execution plan info - #99

Bug fixes:

• HTML output - Top 10 Queries - query link still isn't generated properly in some cases #101

PSBlitz v3.2.0 - 1 year anniversary

What's new:

Enhancements:

• PSBlitz was updated with June release of Brent's First Responder Kit - #92
• PSBlitz now returns information about opened transactions belonging to either active or sleeping sessions - #86
• Split index fragmentation and stats info script - #83
• spBlitzIndex_NonSPLatest.sql now has @BringThePain = 1 by default - #91
• PSBlitz now checks for exclusive lock held on tables before attempting to get index fragmentation info - #95
• Index fragmentation info now also shows the index size in GB - #84
• Reduced the scope of stats info to tables with 10k+ rows, and index fragmentation info to indexes with at least 52k pages (~400MB)
• PSBlitz's main comment block has been rewritten into comment-based help - #93

Bug fixes:

• Hostname appears twice in the output directory's name when PSBlitz runs against default instances - #85
• HTML output - Top 10 Queries - query link isn't generated for queries that don't have execution plans - #89
• GetBlitzWhoData.sql does not filter by database name when CheckDB is used - #94

PSBlitz v3.1.1

Emergency bug fix

#81 - -CheckDB parameter vulnerable to SQLi in interactive mode

PSBlitz v3.1.0

What's new:

Enhancements

• The HTML output now accommodates large queries better by having the query text in a separate table linked by query IDs in the bottom half of the BlitzCache and BlitzWhoAgg pages.
• Added links to allow easier navigation within the same HTML page
• Removed query text from BlitzWho non-aggregate page in the HTML output

Bug fixes:

• In certain cases an html file generated from sp_BlitzCache can get mangled
• The .sqlplan file name counter in the HTML output report starts at 0 instead of 1
• Average and XPM tables are no longer being populated when Excel output is used

PSBlitz v3.0.1

What's new:

Enhancements

• PSBlitz was updated with April 20th release of Brent's First Responder Kit - #72
• Added a check when exporting to Excel to make sure Excel actually is installed and switch to HTML if not - #71

PSBlitz v3.0.0

What's new:

🎉 As of this release, PSBlitz is capable of also exporting the report to HTML, making Excel/Office no longer a hard requirement for running PSBlitz. 🎉

Enhancements

#66 - Add HTML as a report output format
This adds both a command line parameter -ToHTML which switches report format to HTML when Y is provided as a value, as well as a prompt during interactive mode.
#69 - Add option to create a zip archive of the output files
This adds both a command line parameter -ToZip also creates a zip archive of all the output files when Y is provided as a value, as well as a prompt during interactive mode.

Bug fixes

#68 - Reference invalid in the in-depth check Intro sheet of the XLSX format of the report

Minor code cleanup

PSBlitz v2.3.1

What's new:

Enhancements

• Updated with the latest versions of sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, sp_BlitzFirst, sp_BlitzIndex, sp_BlitzLock, and sp_BlitzWho, from Brent Ozar's February release of the First Responder Kit

PSBlitz v2.3.0

What's new:

Enhancements

• Workflow improvements:
  #53 - Implement background process to collect sp_BlitzWho data every x seconds
• New parameters and/or switches:
  #57 - Add -DebugInfo switch that can be used in script mode only
  #62 - Add -OutputDir parameter to specify in which directory to save the output folder
  #58 - Add -MaxTimeout parameter for checks that can run for a while on larger databases
  #60 - Add -ConnTimeout parameter to specify custom connection timeouts longer than the default 15 seconds
• Output changes
  #51 - Accuracy changes in Instance information output
  #61 - Add "Estimated Response Latency" to the "Instance Info" sheet
• Quality of life
  #55 - Remove _Deltas view creation portion from spBlitzWho_NonSPLatest.sql
  #56 - Prepend Hostname to the output directory name
  #59 - Add "command timeout" and "connection timeout" status messages for each step

Bug fixes

#52 - The "Statistics Info" and "Index Fragmentation" sheets still get deleted in case of an automatically triggered database check

PSBlitz v2.2.3

Bug fixes

#49 Error when getting stats & index data when 2/3 of the database names returned by sp_BlitzCache = -- N/A --

PSBlitz v2.2.2

Bug fixes

#45 GetBlitzWhoData.sql and GetTempDBUsageInfo.sql fail on case-sensitive instances