*Record Scratch*
*Freeze Frame*
Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation...
I was just minding my own business, trying to configure a SQL Server connection in Spotlight Enterprise, when it starts chirping about…
*Record Scratch*
*Freeze Frame*
Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation...
I was just minding my own business, trying to configure a SQL Server connection in Spotlight Enterprise, when it starts chirping about…
This short video reviews Spotlight's Workload and Wait State Analysis dashboards. (4:53)
Are you looking for a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer?
If so, you're in the right place!
This short video reviews Spotlight's architecture and requirements. (2:59)
Installation is simple and takes only a few minutes…
While your database handles requests from end-users, it starts to consume various resources. With increased number of requests, the database may suffer from resource waits. Excessive wait types and times may lead to performance latencies and degradation…
Quest is very excited to announce the General Availability of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise v13.3.
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise v13.3 is focused on a major aspect of SQL Server tuning - analyzing execution plans.
An execution plan…
Quest Software is excited to announce our extended Spotlight® Cloud offering which will deliver deep performance diagnostics to both on-premises and cloud SQL Server environments from a single, innovative SaaS platform.
Two years ago, we…
SQL Server provides us with a number of high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Two of them are Always On Availability Groups and Always On Failover Cluster offerings. In order to leverage these options, they themselves need to be constantly…
When dealing with large number of connections, the power and advantage of PowerShell API can be leveraged to manage, automate, and administer Spotlight configuration. The efficiency gains obtained through command line access to automate configuration…
Spotlight 13.0 introduces a brand new feature of managing access to monitored connections at the user level. It provides the ability to assign or deny a user access to a set of connections that have been configured to be monitored in Spotlight.
The need…
Just like most people’s goal towards incorporating more raw food into their daily diet, accessing and manipulating raw data is very much a coveted functionality.
The Spotlight Statistics Repository database is a repository for historical data collected…
Spotlight Enterprise 12.4 comes with some neat features you do not want to miss!
Query Execution Plans available when needed the most:
The Workload Analysis and the Query Execution Statistics drilldowns expose the most resource intensive transactions…
We all get excited when our cell phone plan includes so called “Unlimited Data.” But, you know what happens if we push your luck. That’s right; we start to experience performance issues and get tossed into the dreaded 2G zone!
A similar…
Imagine this.... you're hosting a Holiday Party...and the phone rings. You answer and the person on the other end says with a tense voice, "I'm sorry but we will be unable to deliver your beer, wine, and liquor order. The product never shipped."…
Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues. The Workload Analyzer of Spotlight Cloud is a very robust query evaluator tool…
Capture the SQL performance metrics that are uniquely important to your environment
Spotlight on SQL Server arrives ready to collect and alert on all of the key SQL Server performance indicators that most enterprises need to know about. The out-of-the…
In Part 1 of this blog post, I review how you can get an evaluation copy and explain the various integration points from Quest’s monitoring solutions – Foglight and Spotlight Enterprise. You can find it here -> https://www.quest.com/community…
One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are:
Naturally, it's VERY important to know when things are going wrong with our monitored instances. What's not helpful is the dreaded "False Positive." You know the scenario I'm about to describe. It's 03:00 and you're sleeping soundly and dreaming of the…
So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It simply expires after the 30 days. There are a couple…
I recently spoke to a user of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise who wanted to be able to drill into the individual SQL Server instances that are participating in an Availability Group. The customer had successfully created a connection to the Availability…
In an earlier blog, I wrote about a company’s success with Quest’s flagship SQL Server monitoring and diagnostics solution – Spotlight Enterprise. The blog detailed a customer success story and revealed detailed use cases explaining how this application…
System administrators find themselves frequently applying required updates to their server hardware, operating system, security packages, or disaster recovery processes in order to maintain system and data integrity. Such enterprise modifications occasionally…
I often get asked about monitoring SQL workload that is consuming a database instance’s resources. The first question that comes to my mind is, “What is the symptom you are trying to resolve?” Are you looking to understand the root cause of compute resource…
Spotlight’s vast alarm customization capabilities enables users a wide variety of options. Setting alarm severity levels, their start and end threshold values, or disabling them completely are just a few. Fortunately, Spotlight performance moni…