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
Because of its many roles, tempdb is the source of performance issues in SQL Server, and there are recommended configuration changes to mitigate this. In this article, Fabiano Amorim demonstrates another issue with tempdb performance that you probably didn’t know about.
2020-07-02
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
This July we're taking Redgate Streamed down under, bringing together expert industry speakers from Australia and New Zealand for a full day of online sessions, knowledge sharing and networking.
2020-06-30
Learn about the concept of views in SQL, and how they work. Read on to see clear examples of how to implement views.
2020-06-30
Running SQL Server in a container may seem daunting at first, but it’s easy once you understand the handful of commands needed. In this article, Robert Cain demonstrates how to run SQL Server in a Docker container on Ubuntu.
2020-06-29
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
In this article we look at how to capture stored procedure executions using Profiler to help with troubleshooting issues that are occurring from your application making procedure calls.
2020-06-26
In this article in the storage series, Robert Sheldon explains infrastructure options that simplify administration and improve resource utilization. He discusses the differences and benefits of converged, hyperconverged, and composable infrastructures.
2020-06-25
Join us for a look at how SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) provides detailed performance data for Oracle environments, allowing DBAs to solve complex performance issues in less than four steps.
2020-06-24
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