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Installing the SQLDM CWF dashboard during a trial
In this blog post, I'll be guiding you through the installation of the SQL Diagnostic Manager and the IDERA Dashboard in a trial...
Deploying the SQLcompliance Agent in a Failover Cluster Environment Using a Powershell Script
Background A few months ago, I spoke to one of our SQL Safe Backup customers that had a very large SQL Server environment. In an effort to...
Monitoring Windows Services with SQL Diagnostic Manager
As we all probably already know, SQL Diagnostic Manager is a powerful performance monitoring and diagnostics solution that proactively alerts...
Announcing SQL Safe Backup 8.5.1 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.5.1. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer...
The Simple 3-2-1 Rule for Backups
Earlier this month, one of Microsoft's Azure data centers encountered an outage that impacted customers worldwide. Microsoft recently...
Announcing SQL Enterprise Job 2.2 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Enterprise Job Manager 2.2. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA...
Backing Up Databases in a High Availability Group
If you are a database administrator, then you are no stranger to the idea that data must be highly available. High availability simply...
Announcing SQL Safe Backup 8.5 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.5. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer...
A Short Introduction to the SQL Safe Command Line Interface (CLI)
SQL Safe Backup offers a number of different ways to initiate a backup/restore operation. Operations can be initiated from the SQL Safe Management...
How to get alert notifications through SMS
In a number of our products, such as SQL Diagnostic Manager and SQL Safe Backup, there exists a means to configure alert...
Alert Configuration Templates in SQL Diagnostic Manager
Several versions ago, SQL Diagnostic Manager (SQLDM) introduced Alert Configuration Templates, which basically allowed users to preconfigure alert...
Addressing License DLL Issues in SQL Enterprise Job Manager
IDERA has recently updated the license library for all the products. In some situations, customers may see a license prompt upon launching the...
Addressing License DLL Issues in SQL Defrag Manager
IDERA has recently updated the license library for all the products. In some situations, customers may see a license prompt upon launching the...
Addressing License DLL Issues in SQL Safe Backup
IDERA has recently updated the license library for all the products. In some situations, customers may see a license prompt upon launching the...
Use SQL Safe Backup’s Monitor Only Policies with customized backup operations
In my previous blog post, I wrote about how customized backup/restore solutions can be accomplished through the use of SQL Safe Backup's command...
Customized Solutions Using SQL Safe Backup’s XSPs
During my days as a Technical Support Engineer here at IDERA, I’d occasionally encounter a customer trying to do something that’s not directly...
How to run an application under an account of a different domain
Not too long ago, I came across a scenario where a user needed to launch an application (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio) to access SQL Server,...
A Closer Look At SQL Safe’s Backup File Deletion
One of SQL Safe's frequently used feature is the ability to automatically delete backups older than a certain time period. This feature, however, is...