Spotlight Enterprise 12.4 New Features
Spotlight Enterprise 12.4 comes with some neat features you do not want to miss! Query Execution Plans available when needed the most: The Workload Analysis and the Query Execution Statistics drilldow...
Spotlight Federation Steps
We all get excited when our cell phone plan includes so called “Unlimited Data.” But, you know what happens if we push your luck. That’s right; we start to experience performance issues and get toss...
You serious, Clark?
Imagine this.... you're hosting a Holiday Party...and the phone rings. You answer and the person on the other end says with a tense voice, "I'm sorry but we will be unable to deliver your beer, wine, ...
Spotlight Cloud Workload Analyzer Diagnostic Tool
Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues. The Workload Analyzer o...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Customer Conversation: Diagnose SQL Server Instances in an Availability Group
I recently spoke to a user of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise who wanted to be able to drill into the individual SQL Server instances that are participating in an Availability Group. The customer h...
Quest Customer Story: Sticking With What Works
In an earlier blog, I wrote about a company’s success with Quest’s flagship SQL Server monitoring and diagnostics solution – Spotlight Enterprise. The blog detailed a customer success story and reveal...
Extend Spotlight on SQL Server with Custom Counters
Capture the SQL performance metrics that are uniquely important to your environment Spotlight on SQL Server arrives ready to collect and alert on all of the key SQL Server performance indicators that...
Spotlight Enterprise Migration
System administrators find themselves frequently applying required updates to their server hardware, operating system, security packages, or disaster recovery processes in order to maintain system and...