Are you ready for growth in 2020? Whether that means wider business growth which you and your team will be expected to support, expansion of your SQL Server estate, or even your own professional development. Join Redgate in this free webinar on November 20th and be prepared for the coming year.
2019-11-01
Microsoft MVP Grant Fritchey provides an insight into the key findings from the report; what is the biggest challenge facing database professionals this year? How are estates changing? And what technologies are being used across the industry? Read Grant’s blog to find out.
2019-07-16
Redgate's second annual State of SQL Server Monitoring survey provides new insights into how the world of SQL Server monitoring is adjusting and adapting to emerging challenges, such as compliance regulations and cloud technologies, while keeping on-top of the usual issues such as deployments, availability, and capacity.
2019-07-03 (first published: 2019-06-28)
Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you want to know if the system is working at all. Even developers care if their […]
2019-06-19
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Just as you write a unit test before writing the code, so you must devise the means to monitor a database, to ensure its smooth operation, before creating the database.
2019-06-01
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SCOM is good at monitoring the status of your servers. SQL Monitor give you a detailed view of your SQL Server instances, and databases, right across your network, however they are hosted. By using tools appropriately, for the tasks they do well, you benefit from a simpler and more comprehensive overall strategy.
2019-05-22
Phil Factor creates a simple custom metric to track the number of sessions that have recently done a read or write on a database. Having established a baseline for the metric, you'll be able to spot, and investigate the cause of, any wild deviations from normal behavior.
2019-04-25
Monitoring your SQL Server is important. This article examines one of the metrics you might want to keep an eye on.
2021-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-26)
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Learn how you can post notifications from SQL Server directly to a Slack channel.
2018-10-23
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Blocking in SQL Server is normal behavior, but excessive blocking can lead to many complaints and is a symptom of poor performance. SQL Server contains a vast amount of information that can help when troubleshooting performance issues like blocking, but understanding and gathering that information when you need it is a lot of work. Darko Martinovic explains his solution for a custom blocking report.
2018-02-06
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