"Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a mont...
The backend repository for the Foglight Performance Investigator is based on Infobright, an analytics engine for machine generated data. However, you can connect natively via anything that can connect...
In recent SharePlex blogs, my colleagues and I have discussed using the Analyze Config command to help gather information to tune SharePlex, and the importance of tuning the target database. In this ...
“Sorry, you're just not my type.” The one sentence, no one ever wants to hear, after the first date with someone you thought you had a made a great connection with. The sudden empty feeling in your st...
One of the lesser known features of Foglight the ability to monitor log files. One of our customers has a process that collects and prints documentation required for truck movement. Before a truck...
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise‘s main purpose in life is to inform you of SQL Server performance problems, and then give you a quick way to diagnose their root causes so you can take action quickl...
Configuring alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enteprise is quite easy. Configuring alarms across multiple connections, however, wasn’t always so easy. In versions prior to 11.5, you were required to s...
Differential backups make perfect sense….backup only what has changed since the last Full backup. Differential backups dramatically reduce the storage needed to maintain backups, while lowering mainte...
As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments. There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be th...
We’ve posted recently about database developers feeling left out of agile processes. You may wonder how application developers can have it so easy – scrums, sprints and automation – to deploy updates ...
In database replication, “immediately” never feels quite fast enough for your users, does it? “We replicate transactions from production databases in real time,” you tell them. “You’ll see the change ...
