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...
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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...
SQL Compliance Manager v 4.5 Beta
We are pleased to announce that SQL Compliance Manager 4.5 will soon be available for beta testing. Please note that this is pre-release code and...
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...
Upcoming Events: SQL Saturday and TechEd 2014 in Houston
We’ve got a busy week coming up for the Idera team. On Saturday, May 10 we will be at SQLSaturday Houston, which is being held at San Jacinto...
Most Popular FAQs for SQL Doctor
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...
SQL Elements 1.1 is now available
We are happy to announce the general availability of SQL Elements 1.1. Existing users may upgrade to the latest version through the Idera Customer...
SQL Server 2014 is almost here!
In case you hadn’t yet heard, last week Microsoft’s Quentin Clark, announced that SQL Server 2014 had reached the RTM milestone on March 18, and it...
SQL Elements 1.1 Beta Now Available
UPDATE: The beta is now closed, thank you for your help! A beta build for SQL Elements 1.1 is now available. Please refer to the beta thread for...
SQL Saturday Silicon Valley March 2014 Recap
It was my great pleasure to attend SQL Saturday Silicon Valley this past weekend, along with two of my Idera colleagues, Robert and Jessica. If...
Idera SQL XEvent Profiler – a free tool for XEvent monitoring
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
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...
Copying instance lists between SQL Elements and SQL Diagnostic Manager
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...
Converting a list of server names to a semicolon separated list using Word
The SQL Elements Add Server Wizard allows multiple servers to be added at once by using a semicolon separated list. If you already have a list of...