Quickly grouping events in SQL XEvent Profiler

Quickly grouping events in SQL XEvent Profiler

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 XEvent Profiler, a little tool that uses XEvent technology but emulates the workflow of SQL Profiler to make it quick and...

Survey: Oracle in your environment

A recent survey indicated a significant number of our customers use Oracle in their environment. Please help us better understand how we can help you by filling out this brief survey. There are no wrong answers, and you’ll be helping us to plan the next releases...

Precise for web shows only a location of All

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 multiple locations currently you must define the IP range of locations in your environment. This can be somewhat...

Survey: What database platforms are you using?

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 survey to let us know what database platforms are in use in your organization. As a thank you, we’ll send you a $5.00...

DBAs and Dinosaurs

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 quick search to find a reference that not only exposed actual predictions of the death of the DBA as a profession but also...

SQL diagnostic manager Secrets: Configuring Alerts

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 today’s article I want to talk about some of the capabilities around managing alerts that you may not have discovered....

Time for an Upgrade?

Time for an Upgrade?

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 matter either, be it IT related (software, hardware) or the latest smartphone or TV, I typically wrestle with the...

Survey: Idera’s new SQL Server job management solution

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 offer the following features: Agentless monitoring of SQL Server agent jobs Centralized job management including the...

Best Practices for Deployment of SQL Compliance Manager

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 deploy and setup the tool on your SQL Servers. Either way you can always use some help to really configure the product the...

AWS cost saving tip: Delete unused EBS volumes

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, snapshot, detach, and delete those unused EBS volumes. Identify It is important to identify if your EBS volumes are currently...