Operations Manager has stacks of reports to help you monitor your applications' uptime, but reporting can be difficult until you understand all the different options, parameters, and the structure of the Operations Manager health model. Firstly, you need a clear idea about the way that your organization defines 'uptime', and only then you can start your reports. Thomas LaRock explains...
2009-03-27
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Operations Manager has a number of reports to help you monitor the uptime of your applications, but reporting can be difficult to learn until you understand all the different options, the different parameters possible, and the way the Operations Manager health model is structured. Firstly, you need a clear idea about the way that your organization defines 'uptime'. then you can start your reports from any of the views in the Monitoring tab, and then add or remove objects to get the report you need.
2009-03-16
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To illustrate the great possibilities of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, Thomas shows how to create a Custom Monitor for SQL Agent Jobs, and concludes that Operations Manager is nothing more than a big tinker set.
2008-11-06
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Longtime expert DBA Thomas Laorck brings us a short article about how he uses Operations Manager to watch the SQL Servers he is responsible for and ignore others.
2008-07-23
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An overview of how to collect data from TSQL into Operations Manager Performance Rules.
2008-06-05
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Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
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I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers