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Executing Explain Plans Using Rapid SQL by Dan Hotka

This is a guest post from Dan Hotka, Oracle ACE Director. Learn more at his webinar Explain Plan Tips and Techniques. Hi! My name is Dan Hotka. I am...

SQL Heatmap is here – Idera’s newest free tool

by SandiW

Idera strives to bring helpful tools to the market for DBAs and Developers to complete daily tasks and a variety of these are free. Today we...

Seven Deadly Sins of Database Design

by Joy Ruff

If you don’t get the data right, nothing else matters. However, the business focus on applications often overshadows the priority for a...

Solution: How to register SQL2014 in Defrag if it does not support this version?

by Oleg

I have registered SQL 2008, SQL2012 in my Defrag to monitor them. Then I tried to register SQL Server 2014 instance too. Defrag cannot register it...

Quickly grouping events in SQL XEvent Profiler

by Vicky Harp

As you may know, Idera has a number of free tools for SQL Server and we’re always coming out with new ones. Earlier this year we debuted SQL...

Survey: Oracle in your environment

by Vicky Harp

A recent survey indicated a significant number of our customers use Oracle in their environment. Please help us better understand how we can help...

Precise for web shows only a location of All

by Alan Hanley

You may notice that in Activity tab in Precise for web your location data only shows a Location Name for All. Although Precise is designed to show...

[PAClient Error] Error: E2820 Could not find program… zipalign.exe

by David P

This error message can occur when trying to deploy a mobile application to Android if you recently updated the Android SDK version that is being...

Survey: What database platforms are you using?

by Vicky Harp

We are always looking for feedback to ensure we produce products that make your job easier. We’d very much appreciate if you’d take this short...

Mobile User Interface Design: Navigation Drawer

by Sarina DuPont

Drawer menus are very popular since they allow you to take advantage of more screen real estate when building your app. The main application menu is...

DBAs and Dinosaurs

by Scott Stone

You have to admit that title is catchier than yet another “Death of the DBA” blog. And that was exactly the direction I was headed until I ran a...

SQL diagnostic manager Secrets: Configuring Alerts

by ideracommunity

There are a lot of features in SQL diagnostic manager. In this series, I plan to let you know about features that many users never find. In...

Time for an Upgrade?

by Richard Scruggs

I don’t know about you, but deciding when to pull the trigger on an upgrade is not that easy for me. What is to be upgraded usually doesn’t...

Uploading images to the cloud with BaaS in RAD Studio XE6

by Sarina DuPont

In Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE6, we integrate with leading Backend as a Service (BaaS) providers to add functionality and platform services...

Get Better Integration with SCOM using SQLdm SCOM Management Pack

by SandiW

It’s an age old problem in IT, one IT department has one standard and tools they use to manage their systems. Another IT department has another...

Survey: Idera’s new SQL Server job management solution

by Vicky Harp

We are currently working on a new SQL Server agent job monitoring and management tool, to become available later this year. This first release will...