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New SQL Suites available now!
Today Idera announces a set of three exciting new bundles in addition to its existing popular SQL Management Suite (formerly called SQL Suite)....
Team DBA and Collaboration
In previous blog posts I have explored the relevance of the DBA position itself in business and the unique ways that SQL Server DBAs tend to...
Updating SQL Elements health check intervals
Periodically when I am speaking to users of SQL Elements I receive a request related to changing the interval at which health checks are run for...
Holiday Time Resources
Have a little free time over the holidays while providing coverage for work, or like to brush up on technical information? In addition to the many...
SQL Safe and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
With the release of version 7.4 in August, SQL Safe added AlwaysOn Availability Group support by taking into account the preferred replica when...
Altering wait categories in SQL Diagnostic Manager
SQL Diagnostic Manager ships with built-in categorization of wait types which are encountered in monitoring. These categories are used on both the...
Did you choose to be a DBA?
We have had this survey question and a few others on the community for a few months and thought we would share some of the results. This was a brief...
Auditing is More Than a Way to Get the Security Team Off Your Back
As a DBA, you probably look at auditing tools as a something forced upon you by the security officer. You are asked to provide continuous auditing...
Changing the Max Concurrent Service Connections for SQL Diagnostic Manager
SQL Diagnostic Manager automatically limits the number of connections that a collection service may make to an individual monitored server. This...
What Policy Guidelines are Required for your SQL Environment?
As adherence to regulations continues to be pressed upon organizations by industry and government regulators, the ability of the organizations to...
SQL Traffic Accelerator as a DB performance tool
We get questions from time to time from folks asking what SQL Traffic Accelerator does for DBAs since it sounds like a network monitoring tool....
SQL diagnostic manager Secrets: When is a report more than a report?
SQL diagnostic manager provides many different views of the data it collects. This lets you explore all available data when diagnosing tricky...
What Are SQL Elements Health Checks?
I have recently received a number of questions regarding Health Checks in SQL Elements, what are they, how often do they run, and what do I do with...
New Free Tool – SQL Update Statistics is available now!
Table statistics maintenance is an important part of overall SQL Server administration. DBAs understand a common cause of query performance problems...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...