Do you have sensitive database rules?
You say “No” - well - I say “Yes”. All database rules are sensitive and have a sensitivity level. What does that mean? What is a sensitivity level? Where can I find it and can it be modified? Ok - a l...
Tune Your Queries with SQL Optimizer (Pt 1)
One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are: Minimize Response Time – End users who are interacting wit...
Foglight for Databases Quick Tip – Using the Workload Column in the SQL PI Dashboard
Many of our Foglight users including myself have grown accustomed to using the "Databases" home as their starting point into their daily monitoring tasks. This dashboard provides a global view into a...
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise Tip: Reduce Noise Using Planned Outages
Naturally, it's VERY important to know when things are going wrong with our monitored instances. What's not helpful is the dreaded "False Positive." You know the scenario I'm about to describe. It's 0...
“License and Registration, please…” Spotlight
So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It ...
Foglight for Virtualization – A Year in Review
Wow! What a year and what a way to wrap it up. Foglight for Virtualization 8.7.5 is out and with it brings a brand new SaaS offering from Quest that enables connectivity from any Foglight for Virtuali...
REST API Updates for Foglight 5.9.2
Foglight REST APIs have been firstly introduced in Foglight from version 5.7.5.7. Now, we embrace Foglight 5.9.2 release with awesome REST API new features as well as improvements which might help you...
Foglight for DB 2017 Summary and Look to the Future
What an exciting year it was for Foglight for Databases! Foglight for Databases had an amazing year, with several releases for the various Database Cartridges. Here are some of the highlights of what ...
Measuring the Impact of Meltdown and Spectre Patching on your Databases
The new year kicked off with some big news on January 3rd, 2018 with the news of the Meltdown and Spectre chipset vulnerabilities. There are a lot of resources available to understand the details and ...
Monitoring the Status of your TempDB using Foglight for SQL Server
In every SQL Server instance the TempDB database is the common global resource for all the operations taking place and DBA's are particularly cautious about the use of it. Given the nature of applica...
SQL or NoSQL, Foglight has you covered
Maintaining a cross-platform database environment has been common for twenty years or more. For all kinds of business or technical reasons, companies leverage different database types including Micros...
How to test connectivity if Telnet or Putty is not available
When reporting a Foglight connectivity issue, support people are always asking to test the connection using Telnet or Putty. But what to do if you do not have Telnet or Putty installed? There are some...