Lil’ Help?
Many of us don’t like to ask for directions…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVzRD_nWLQ&t=16s That said, getting advice, directions, help, or suggestions will provide a faster path to success. My ...
Monitor Postgres Disk Space Usage with Foglight
Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninte...
Archive, Rapid Recovery Style
First things first. What is data archiving? Simply put, it’s a process that takes data that’s no longer in use or has lost its relevance and moves it to lesser expensive storage such as magnetic tape...
Customer Conversation: Backup Escalation in Litespeed for SQL Server
A customer recently asked me to clarify the option "Enable Backup Escalation" in Litespeed for SQL Server. The customer has been using Litespeed for a while so I was a bit surprised the question was a...
Customer Question: Setting Up ASM Monitoring with Foglight for Oracle
Recently, I spoke with a customer who's using Foglight for Oracle to monitor their RAC instance. They were able to successfully monitor the instance, but then asked "Why don't I see any data in the AS...
Filter Database Visibility Using Foglight User Level Access
Organizations are as varied as the people working within them. Some organizations have groups that are focused on specific applications. Some organizations have people responsible for specific databas...
Monitoring Workload – Heads or Tails, it’s two sides of the same coin
I often get asked about monitoring SQL workload that is consuming a database instance’s resources. The first question that comes to my mind is, “What is the symptom you are trying to resolve?” Are you...
Não Seja a Próxima Vítima de Ransomware
Acabamos de testemunhar um dos ataques públicos de ransomware mais devastadores e abrangentes já registrados. Na sexta-feira, dia 12 de maio de 2017, uma estimativa de 200.000 vítimas em 150 países f...
Quest Customer Story: Foglight Performance Investigator Use Cases shared from the trenches
As a Sales Engineer for the Database Performance Monitoring team, one of the more rewarding aspects of my role is to learn about specific ways that our customers are leveraging Quest solutions. With t...
Bringing Order to Chaos
I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can u...
SharePlex Tuning 101 – A Journey, Not A Destination
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 ...
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh My! – Thoughts on NetVault Backup
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh My! Ah, the famous lines from The Wizard of Oz. Of course, these are the lines uttered by Dorothy just before she meets the Cowardly Lion. This helps to illustrate her f...