Managing an IT team is a tough job. While demands on services are increasing, both internally and externally, the need to be aware of and in control of application and server performance is a constant pressure. Right now, there are four key areas that are of particular concern for those…Read more
Redgate announced today a new Redgate Monitor feature to ease the problems DBAs and developers face with query tuning and optimization. Its advanced query tuning and tracking capability will now enable DBAs and developers to identify costly queries, get recommendations on how to optimize them, and track them to compare…Read more
I’m beyond excited to share that we’re bringing PostgreSQL monitoring to Redgate Monitor and we would like to invite Redgate Monitor customers to preview it. At Redgate we’ve been watching as ever-growing numbers of organizations have embraced PostgreSQL. In particular, as we talk to Redgate Monitor users, personally starting to…Read more
I’ve written before about building your own monitoring systems versus buying a monitoring tool like Redgate Monitor. I talked about the time that someone tasked with managing and maintaining data gets back in their day when they purchase a monitoring solution. However, that’s not where the business focuses. The business…Read more
In the IT team at Redox, I wear two hats: Software Development Manager and DBA. I’m the only DBA in the team, so if anything goes wrong it’s my job to identify and fix it. As you might imagine, this can be challenging when being a DBA isn’t your full-time…Read more
This question comes up all the time: How do you migrate between monitoring systems? The answer is both simple and complicated. In order to understand this better, rather than just rely on my own knowledge, I reached out to a number of people to see how they accomplished this. I’m…Read more
This year we’ve been expanding Redgate Monitor’s capabilities around the theme of Estate Management and we’ve just released a new capability – the discovery of on-premises SQL Servers and instances. We started on this journey with basic instance configuration observability and alerting earlier this year. While gathering feedback and finding…Read more
To help organizations explore and manage the advantages the cloud provides, the latest release of Redgate Monitor now supports Amazon EC2 and RDS, and Azure SQL Database and Managed Instances alongside on-premises SQL Server. A new global dashboard also allows users to check the health of their entire SQL Server…Read more
When it comes to reputational risk, a reactive approach is generally taken by organizations, with efforts focused on handling threats to their business they are already aware of. As much as this enables short term damage limitation, it may not be enough to manage and protect your risk in the…Read more
I have written a nearly 1,000 page book on SQL Server performance tuning. In several chapters through the book, I outline all the necessary metrics you need to monitor your systems. I also show exactly how to put together those metrics in a variety of tools built into your OS…Read more