SQL Server & Cost Insights

Expert guidance on SQL Server performance monitoring, query cost optimization, and capacity planning from the team behind WISdom for Databases.

Blog Posts

Ending the Era of Abundance: Why Databases Are Ground Zero for FinOps Optimization

Written by: Ben DeBow | Founder and CEO of Fortified | Author of End of Abundance in Tech As the...

Fortified Completes SOC 2 Type II Audit

Strengthening trust for customers running critical data workloads with an independent audit validating security, availability, and confidentiality controls over time....

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How DBAs Prove Their Value at Work in 2026

For decades, the value of a DBA was defined by reliability. Keep systems running. Fix performance problems. Prevent outages. That...

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The FinOps Tipping Point: 10 Predictions That Will Define 2026

FinOps is at an inflection point. What started as cloud cost management is evolving into something bigger. It’s now a...

Fortified WISdom Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace

For Release 9 am EST.Monday, November 4, 2025 Charlotte, NC – MONTH DAY, 2025 – Fortified today announced the availability...

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How to Plan for a Breakup (with Your Monitoring Tool)

The Honeymoon Phase Is Over It started out great. The dashboards were shiny. The alerts were crisp. You felt seen.Every...

Spotlight

Developer Spotlight: Eric Tilley

— Building Fast, Smart, and with Purpose When Eric Tilley talks about software development, you can hear both precision and...

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Why B2B Software Licensing Is Broken for MSPs

And How We’re Fixing It. Running a Managed Service Provider (MSP) business means balancing constant client demands against tight margins....

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Query tuning tactics, cost-optimization playbooks, and capacity-planning guides from the WISdom for Databases team. No fluff, no vendor filler.