DBAs: The Ultimate Jugglers in the IT Circus
Some days, as I’m pulling up to the office, I feel as if I may as well be driving a clown car to a circus. With so much chaos in tech right now, so many database projects and all the growing demands p...
SQL de Mayo – SQL Saturday #734 Dallas Recap
Having fun with the "SQL de Mayo" theme at the conference One of the best things about working for Quest has been the numerous opportunities we get to participate in conferences, user groups and meet...
Checking Query Plans for Columnstore Index Candidates
A customer asked recently if there is a way to find SQL that references objects that are a certain size. They are evaluating historic queries on tables to find possible candidates for conversion to co...
Exceptional Database Exceptions in Foglight
A common question is how to make an exception for 1 or 2 particular databases for certain rules in Foglight. A good example is the "days since last backup" rule for SQL Server. The global default appl...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes (-David Bowie)
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change “- Heraclitus. Development, new applications, upgrades, patches, maintenance, schema updates…the list goes on and on around ways that changes are introduced ...
Analysis Time. Foglight & Rogue OS Processes
Investigating a rogue OS process is a pain; digging through the multitude of metrics, different times of days have different outcomes, alarms that come and go and customer complaints to accompany it a...
Tune Your Queries with SQL Optimizer (Pt 2)
In Part 1 of this blog post, I review how you can get an evaluation copy and explain the various integration points from Quest’s monitoring solutions – Foglight and Spotlight Enterprise. You can find ...
Diagnosing Historical Sessions in SQL Server TempDB
In the recent 5.7.5.50 release of Foglight for SQL Server, a change was made to the TempDB drilldown. Specifically, the Sessions tab would formerly show the current sessions, regardless of the time ra...
Exposing Foglight User-Defined Collection Data
This post will cover one way to make it easy easier to get the user-defined collection data onto a dashboard or report. For a quick refresher, please see User Defined Collections in Foglight for SQL S...
Reporting on Changes to Foglight Registry Variables
Registry variables in Foglight are mostly used as placeholders in rules in order to avoid hard-coding in values. For example, a rule to check cpu utilization over a certain percentage could be coded ...
7. Foglight Anwendertreffen
Am 10.4. 2018 findet das siebte Foglight Anwendertreffen in Köln statt. Das Treffen bietet Ihnen die Möglichkeit, sich über Neuheiten und Entwicklungen im Bereich Foglight zu informieren und Erfahrung...
Foglight Agent Manager in Docker Containers
Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container. A contain...
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