IT Administrators need to keep an eye on Availability, Performance, and Storage of mission-critical environments.
There are many things to consider as you develop a Monitoring and Diagnostics strategy.
Items to consider include:
All-...
If you’d like to try out Foglight for Databases or Foglight for SQL Server, you can download the full software for a 30-day evaluation, and one of us here at Quest will be happy to assist you with getting it set up. The brief Ins...
The IoT, Internet of Things, has arrived. Sensors are everywhere, collecting more and more data about us and the world around us. Temperature, Humidity, Fluid Levels, Traffic counts, the status of devices and things like doors and elevato...
Traditionally, DBAs are the ones primarily tasked with maintaining high availability and peak performance of the database environment. Therefore, they assume the responsibility of evaluating Performance Monitoring solutions. This requires identi...
What has become a typical theme in the arena of Information Technology are the concerns around managing costs associated with these systems. Whether it be the capital and operating expenditures associated with the data center, or the o...
I recently had a customer ask if they can audit SELECT operations for 1 table and 1 view in a specific database where the SELECT only contains certain keywords.
This article covers advanced filtering in ApexSQL Audit. This post will provide a tutoria…
The First 80 Hours as a Foglight Admin
View the webcast here
This webcast covered:
Access to Support / Community Resources
Version checks and upgrade requirements
Deployment validation
Security audit
Alarm review
Report Setup
Access to dashboards fo…
These are difficult times we are in now but we will persevere. Hopefully, you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy. Most of us are anxious to get back to some sort of normalcy. But, for now, for many of us, the situation has created the n…
Foglight can help identify SQL Tuning candidates?
Yes!
Foglight can tune the SQL?
With seamless integration with Quest’s SQL Optimizer, yes!
OK, let’s stick a fork in this....
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What is SQL Optimizer?
Caution...
In the spirit of keeping my blogs light and fun (?), the title was an attempt at that. In these interesting times (COVID-19 pandemic) and the need to stay home, I have been doing my share of yard work. It is the time of the year with lots of p...