Can you believe this Administration?!
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...
We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 3 (of 3) – CRS and Exadata
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. These monitoring options come included at no additional cost and illustrate how broad ...
Improve your DB2 workload investigations with the new Foglight DB2 SQL Performance dashboard
Hello all. I am a sales engineer at Quest, so I assist customers with Foglight for DB2 installations and evaluations. People who manage performance of DB2 databases need a view in Foglight listing ...
How to Query the Spotlight Statistics Repository Database
Just like most people’s goal towards incorporating more raw food into their daily diet, accessing and manipulating raw data is very much a coveted functionality. The Spotlight Statistics Repository da...
Identify Long Running Queries with Foglight
April 15, 2019.....Let’s give a shout out to all those men and women running the Boston Marathon today. Man, running for that long must be taxing. Taxing…..wait…what day is it again? So, as my way of ...
The Wonderful World of Service Definitions in Foglight
A UI Query can be used to add either static or dynamic components to a service definition via the Service Builder dashboard. This in turn offers a great range of additional things Foglight can do. Thi...
I Didn’t Know SQL Optimizer Could do that!
In the first part of this series, we will learn how to export SQL statements from Foglight SQL Performance Investigator, and import them into SQL Optimizer. Start by opening SQL PI, and selecting a da...
Take the Shortcut – Dashboarding with UI Queries in Foglight
A UI Query can be used as a shortcut to building a custom dashboard or report. This can save time and frustration by publishing either frequently accessed or hard to find data in an easy to use spot. ...
We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 2 – ASM
This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. Part 1 of the blog covers Foglight’s monitoring for Oracle’s Data Guard. https://www.q...
How to Stop Managing Database Performance Like You’re a Character in “Bird Box”
The average DBA, managing a cross-platform database environment. Does this even SEEM like a good idea? Hmmm? On a scale of one to “Bird Box,” how stressful is cross-platform database management? Uh, ...
We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 1 – Data Guard
Hold on, grammar and spelling enthusiasts. Already, you might be thinking, did he mean ‘Complementary’ or ‘Complimentary’? The answer? YES. This blog series focuses on additional Oracle monitoring cap...
Using UI Queries for Reporting in Foglight
A UI Query can be used as an input to a report. This can simplify and offer a broader range of inputs when running or scheduling a report. For a refresher on creating UI Queries, this post covers the...