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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Steve wonders if it is worth it to use multiple monitoring systems for a database.
2025-06-20
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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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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
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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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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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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In this tip we look at how to capture deadlocks that occur in SQL Server and the associated information to help troubleshoot. We look at how to do this using the GUI and T-SQL code.
2022-08-24
Learn about how you can monitor your Azure Storage account and set alerts to let you know when to take action.
2022-07-08
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There are many reasons you should monitor your databases, including avoiding performance problems or running out of disk space. Ideally, you want a scalable monitoring solution where you can monitor all your SQL databases in one single place. This article will describe two options that are available: Azure SQL Analytics and Azure SQL Insights. Both […]
2022-03-18
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We need to transition our team from single instance management and monitoring to managing the overall environment and addressing our most pressing needs to support the organization. How can we move from managing the trees to managing the forest in an efficient and automated manner with a small team?
2022-02-07
By Steve Jones
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For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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