• Oh yeah, this is a major SQL Server tool if you can put it to work. Talk to Tom LaRock some time. He's gone way past where I am currently with the tool. Just the basic monitors & rules are pretty fantastic, but when you can start customizing it to your environment... it really takes off. And now that you've got the data... Reports... Except there's not a good model available for custom reporting (and yeah, if I get one working well enough, that's going to be another article).

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