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The importance of remote monitoring

Monitoring should be able to happen no matter where you are located. This year organizations around the globe had to adapt to many new challenges including a distributed workforce and managing their estate when they can’t be in the office. This blog outlines the reasons and benefits of adopting remote monitoring.

2020-07-03

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Easily manage SQL Server licensing with SQL Monitor 10.1

SQL Monitor 10.1 now gives you a comprehensive overview of your SQL Server licensing, so you know which licenses are in use, and which versions are on which servers. This simplifies license auditing and lets you unearth misconfigurations that could potentially cost you money. The new version also integrates with Microsoft Teams and Splunk, and supports complex Active Directory environments.

2020-07-02

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SQL Server Data Masking with DbDefence

Data breaches are becoming too common place with some accounts reporting more than 1000 breaches per year with close to 50 million records exposed yearly in the financial, business, education, government and healthcare industries. Learn about how DbDefence performs SQL Server Data Masking as a portion of a three pronged approach to protect your data.

2020-07-01

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Cloud adoption rates see increase in 2020

Usage of Microsoft Azure is up by 15 percentage points compared to 2019 and it remains the most-used cloud platform. This is possibly as a result of increased remote working and the need to no longer rely on physical machines. For more insights into 2020 trends and challenges, download the State of Database Monitoring report here.

2020-06-26

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Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?  

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