This quick tip illustrates SQL Monitor's built-in set of Performance Rules for static code analysis. These rules are designed to highlight SQL syntax that could potential cause performance problems, and so indicate ways to improve the overall quality and performance of the workload, over time. Read more
Sudden performance issues in SQL Server can have many causes, ranging all the way from malfunctioning hardware, through to simple misconfiguration, or perhaps just end users doing things they shouldn't. But one particularly common culprit is when deployments go wrong: I don't know a single DBA who hasn't been burned by a bad release. Read more
SQL Monitor’s dev team has made huge improvements to the product over the last year. In the first half of 2017 alone, they released reporting capabilities, support for collecting metrics from VMWare hosts, significant improvements to performance and scalability, improved configurability of alerts, as well as dozens of smaller enhancements. Since we’re about half way Read more
Jon Hayman reviews the metrics available in SQL Monitor can help you diagnose problems that might come from SQL Server running in a virtual environment. Read more
If SQL Agent is offline or paused, we need to know. If a job fails, or fails to start, or performs erratically, we need to know. Grant Fritchey explains how SQL Monitor allow us to keep a very close eye on any job that runs on the SQL Server Agent. Read more
How to use SQL Monitor to identify an unusual set of behaviors on the server, then narrow down the cause of the behaviors to a particular query. Within that query we have the starting point for tuning the query to get better performance. Read more
One of SQL Monitor’s most valuable capabilities is raising alerts when bad things happen in SQL Server. The alerts are listed within SQL Monitor but can also be sent out as emails. However, many of our customers have said they’d like to see those alerts in their other systems too. The latest version of SQL Read more
I’ve been lucky enough to spend some time as a racing driver, racing BMWs for three years before joining the BRSCC Porsche Championship. Steve McQueen famously said ‘Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting’. When I’m waiting, I’m a SQL Server DBA consultant and throughout my racing and DBA career, I’ve realised Read more
I recently sat down with Enterprise Architect, Anthony Nocentino, to talk about how effective monitoring can help resolve many of the issues companies face every day. I was fascinated because my career revolves around how we can improve SQL Server monitoring. Anthony’s involves actually doing it at the coalface. He’s made a name for himself Read more
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