The Slow Growing Problems
Not every problem is going to fire off an alert, but it still might be something that you want to track.
2026-06-15
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Monitoring
Create and Read the Analysis Services Flight Recorder
This article explains how to customize an extended events session in SQL Server Analysis Services for auditing and monitoring
2025-11-05
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How to Measure Replication Latency in SQL Server AlwaysOn Synchronous Availability Groups
Synchronous replicas in SQL Server Availability Groups promise no data loss, but they don’t promise zero delay; under heavy load they can still fall behind. This article shows how to measure and track that hidden replication delay using SQL Server performance counters, so you can see how well your system keeps up during IO‑intensive operations and plan maintenance more safely.
2025-09-17
2025-07-23
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Multiple Monitoring Tools
Steve wonders if it is worth it to use multiple monitoring systems for a database.
2025-06-20
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What Metrics Do You Collect?
Monitoring and observability are becoming more important in today's 24x7x365 environment for applications. Steve asks what data helps you solve problems today. Tell us what's important to you.
2024-06-28
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How using a database monitoring tool helps DBAs create value for the whole organization
The rise of cross platform databases which are both on-premises and in the cloud, alongside decreasing customer satisfaction and trust in digital channels, has increased the importance - and value - of enhanced database monitoring. Find out how using a database monitoring tool creates value for the whole organization.
2023-12-08
Scaling Up Monitoring
How do we design a monitoring system? The Amazon Prime team realized they didn't do a good job and changed their architecture.
2023-05-31
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Metrics and Measures
We need to measure and monitor things to become better, but we need to keep an eye on what the actual goal is from this monitoring.
2023-03-20
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The Complexity of Metrics
We need to monitor our servers, but individual metrics have more complexity than just setting simple limits for their readings.
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-30)
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Blogs
A New Word: Semaphorism
By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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