Migrating databases from Oracle to SQL Server can be challenging, particularly when character sets between the two systems differ. Mismatched character sets can lead to data loss, corruption, or issue...
Embrace the Future: Foglight Cloud Now Available for Your IT Revolution We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations man...
Query Insights: Coming soon in Foglight v6.3! As organizations rely more on data to make critical business decisions, ensuring that their databases are running efficiently becomes increasingly importa...
As part of most any database monitoring software evaluation, it includes comparing that software to similar solutions. Logically, it often means doing head-to-head comparisons to database tools that c...
"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...
Using Toad® for Oracle, there are many ways to export data from your Oracle databases. What is the fastest way to export data from Oracle? It all depends upon your specific use case. Of course, there ...
Hey look, an Amazon Cloud! To recap, Part 1 covers 'As A Service' (...aaS) options - https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/are-your-database-implementations-becoming-a...
In the spirit of keeping my blogs light and fun (?), the title was an attempt at that. In these interesting times (COVID-19 pandemic) and the need to stay home, I have been doing my share of yard work...
Cumulus, Stratus, Cirrus….no…not that THAT kind of CLOUDY. The increasing number of cloud options can be confusing. With that in mind, I thought I’d ‘clear the air’ and review some of the more popula...
( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... ) We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics. “Excuse me whi...
All is well. Megan is having a good day. She’s a SQLServer DBA and her environment is humming along. Then…. someone drops a critical table bringing efficient data retrieval to a screeching halt. Now w...
What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics? Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglig...
