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DBAs and Dinosaurs

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...

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...

Achieve Better Automation with Idera’s SQL Diagnostic Manager

by Rey Rios

A seasoned SQL Server DBA has many skills, expertise and knowledge. Unfortunately, this also means that his/her time is always on demand by many...

Best Practices for Deployment of SQL Compliance Manager

by SandiW

So maybe you downloaded a trial of SQL Compliance Manager and want to play around with it. Or perhaps you already purchased licenses and want to...

AWS cost saving tip: Delete unused EBS volumes

by Liz Stephens

Organizing EBS volumes and deleting detached volumes on a regular basis to can help decrease AWS spend. See how easy it is to identify, tag,...

Counter calculations in SQL Diagnostic Manager

by Vicky Harp

Probably the three most common questions I get about counters in SQL Diagnostic Manager are: “How can I prevent alerting on temporary noise...

Most Popular FAQs for SQL Doctor

by SandiW

SQL Doctor is one of the most popular products in the Idera portfolio and as such we get a variety of questions from users on how it works, where do...

New SQLyog and MONyog coming – please upgrade soon!

by Ritesh

We are about to release upgrades to both SQLyog and MONyog with an important fix: linked libraries possibly vulnerable to the 'Heartbleed'...

Five tiny features of SQL Diagnostic Manager you may not know about

by Vicky Harp

SQL Diagnostic Manager has been around for a long time, and many of you have been using it for years. For today’s topic I thought it might be fun to...

Idera SQL XEvent Profiler – a free tool for XEvent monitoring

by Vicky Harp

The Extended Events technology added to SQL Server in SQL 2008 and expanded upon greatly in SQL 2012 is a powerful mechanism for monitoring activity...

Deep Dive: SQL Diagnostic Manager Availability Checks

by Vicky Harp

One of the frequent questions I get about SQL Diagnostic Manager pertains to one of the most fundamental features of the product – exactly how is...

Is Your SQL Server Slow? Maybe It’s Trying Too Hard

by Liz Stephens

The following is a guest post by Microsoft Certified Master Robert L Davis. Find more from him at SQLSoldier.com, and follow him on twitter...

Reading StringExpand Registry Values

by ps1

When you read a Registry value of type StringExpand, it will always automatically expand any environment variables contained in the text. This...

Copying instance lists between SQL Elements and SQL Diagnostic Manager

by Vicky Harp

If you’re a user of both SQL Elements and SQL Diagnostic Manager, it’s a reasonable bet that you’ll have some overlap of instances being monitored...

Five Must-Have Tools For DBA’s

by Liz Stephens

SQL Diagnostic Manager SQL diagnostic manager is a full, feature-rich monitoring solution for your SQL Server and virtualization platform with...

The Cheat-Sheet on SharePoint’s Distributed Cache

by Liz Stephens

I was in Indiana this past weekend at SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis, and one of the presentations I delivered at the event was a favorite of...

Manipulating File System Paths (Part 3)

by powershelltips

In previous tips we illustrated how you can turn file system paths into arrays and then create new paths by changing or excluding parts of the...

Manipulating File System Paths (Part 2)

by powershelltips

When you turn a path into an array to manipulate parts of the path, if you access path elements by fixed index numbers, then this approach will only...