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Understanding and Managing High Memory Usage in SQL Server
Metadata Overview, by Ron Huizenga
What is Metadata? The term “Metadata” arises frequently when discussing Data Architecture. In short, it is “data about data.” However,...
Granting Namespace Rights to DM Service Account
community.idera.com/.../Granting-Namespace-Rights-to-Service-Account-for-SQldm-Web-Console-Services.docx Useful document describing how to grant...
SQL Server – Server Node Reports for Troubleshooting
This is a guest post from Pinal Dave. For many DBAs, restless nights start when end users complain that the application using SQL Server is too...
Monitoring Disk Queue Length
Recently, I wrote a blog post about performance counters and why the threshold depends (Performance Counters: Why It Depends). In this post, I...
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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...
Recruiting Beta Candidates for SQL Compliance Manager 4.5 Beta
Thank you for your interest in the SQL Compliance 4.5 beta. Please note that this is pre-release code and may be subject to certain defects. Your...
AppTethering Leaderboard – Passing Objects Remotely and using Resources
AppTethering opens up a range of powerful features for coupled applications. Beyond the basic features for calling remote actions (which is rather...
How to convert an object to JSON and back with a single line of code
Ever wanted to take an Object into a format that is easily persisted and back? Well now you can. New in XE6 is the REST.JSON unit. This allows you...
C++Builder XE6 multi-tier database app with FireDAC JSON Reflection
Welcome to The C++ Mobile Day webinar! Right now I'm listening to David I explaining basics of building native mobile apps for Android and iOS...
Achieve Better Automation with Idera’s SQL Diagnostic Manager
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
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
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,...
Solaris 10 Agent Issue
Hi, in troubleshooting an agent issue, I’m seeing the following: Â Â #su – nobody #telnet localhost 9998 Trying 127.0.0.1…...
Adding user account creation to your BaaS enabled apps
In RAD Studio XE6, we introduced our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support. This includes components for both Kinvey and Parse. Part of our component...
Counter calculations in SQL Diagnostic Manager
Probably the three most common questions I get about counters in SQL Diagnostic Manager are: “How can I prevent alerting on temporary noise...