How to monitor Always On availability groups

How to monitor Always On availability groups

Always On availability groups are part of an integrated solution with the goal of achieving the highest level of data availability and disaster recovery for organizations. Availability groups grant database administrators the ability to automatically or manually...

Upgrade SKU to be Discontinued by March 31st

Dear Customers,   A few years back we introduced our Update Subscription program. This approach to licensing was a response to dominant industry trends to move away from periodic Upgrades to ongoing Subscription relationships that deliver continuous value to...

Replication Performance Enhancements in MySQL 8

Although it feels like it was only yesterday that Oracle released version 5.7 of their acclaimed MySQL Community Server, version 8 is already available as a development milestone release (DMR). No, you didn’t sleep through a bunch of releases; MySQL is jumping several...

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 notifications through an email. Despite the fact that just about everyone can read their email on their smart device, there may...

Configuring TempDB on Azure IaaS for SQL Server

Configuring TempDB on Azure IaaS for SQL Server

Hey everybody! I am asked by clients/team members/friends a lot about how to setup TEMPDB to use the D:\ drive on an Azure VM for SQL Server.  Following the steps listed below is how I configure it on my VM’s. This seems to be the most standard way folks...

Using QPI to identify high data usage in Elastic Pool

Using QPI to identify high data usage in Elastic Pool

So I recently began working on a project for a client that wanted to move from a Premium Elastic Pool to a Standard Elastic Pool due to the costs.  They wanted to know if it was possible, and asked me to provide expert advice and steps to accomplish this. ...

February #SQLChat – Becoming a Microsoft MVP

February #SQLChat – Becoming a Microsoft MVP

Are you hoping to become a Microsoft MVP? Or, have you already gone through the application process yourself? Then participate in our next Twitter Chat! Our next #SQLChat will take place on Wednesday, February 7th at 11 AM CT with Mindy Curnutt (@sqlgirl). Mindy is a...

Alert Burnout

Alert Burnout

Do you routinely ignore alerts?  If you have an email rule that sends alerts to their own folder, that is a hint.  If you find that a day passes without opening this folder, that clinches it.  Do you ignore some alerts and not others?  An effective...

Top 10 things to know about Alibaba Cloud RDS

Top 10 things to know about Alibaba Cloud RDS

Cloud-based Relational Database Services (RDS) offer businesses a variety of traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with several management and configuration options. In the Top 10 Things to Know about Amazon RDS blog, we covered Amazon RDS. In...

Get Ready for the New Programmers!

Get Ready for the New Programmers!

U.S. News an World Report just ranked Software Developer as the best job for 2018. They use data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics to rank jobs based on pay, job security, mental engagement, stress, room to advance, satisfaction, and work-life balance....

Law of the Instrument and Curse of the Programmer

If you aren’t familiar with the Law of the Instrument, otherwise known as Maslow’s hammer/gavel, or the golden hammer it is often expressed as If your only tool is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail. My understanding is that the law of the instrument means you...

Some of my New Year’s #CodingResolutions

Some of my New Year’s #CodingResolutions

The joke goes that, when asked, the software developer responds that their New Year’s Resolution is “7680×4320” or 8K. Joking aside, tradition has it that at the turn of the year we evaluate our lives and look for areas of improvement. Here are a few of my software...

New Discovery and Tuning Suite Now Available

New Discovery and Tuning Suite Now Available

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new suite of performance products packaged to fill the core needs of most SQL Server DBAs. Discovery and Tuning Suite includes products to measure and optimize SQL Server performance for your critical SQL Server...

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