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How did a healthcare company in South Africa fix a slow and erratic SQL Server?
An IT company that deals with the healthcare industry in South Africa develop a variety of software products, which cover a wide range of...
What do IDERA’s customers have to say about SQL Doctor?
Are you curious about who the customers of SQL Doctor are in terms of the organization, industry, and country? What is the size and the deployment...
How are you tuning the performance of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server?
SQL Doctor diagnoses and provides the cure for what ails SQL Server on premise, in the cloud, and as a managed cloud database. Collect performance...
How to monitor SQL Server performance with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
The monitoring of SQL Server environments is much more straightforward with quality monitoring applications. The proper monitoring applications can...
How to add SQL Server instances to SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
With SQL Diagnostic Manager, monitor the performance of the entire SQL Server environment by quickly and easily adding SQL Server instances. There...
Why is database backup compression better than file deduplication?
Database administrators often argue with their storage administrators about not compressing database backups. Storage Administrators state that they...
How to create custom counters with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
Every environment is different. SQL Diagnostic Manager has pre-configured metrics that it monitors and collects...
How to run prescriptive analysis with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
SQL Diagnostic Manager distinguishes itself from typical monitoring tools because it is more than just a symptom-based monitoring tool, since it can...
How to configure metric thresholds and baselines with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
In SQL Diagnostic Manager, whenever a metric exceeds the configured value or threshold, the state of the metric changes and it can execute an...
How to configure alert actions and responses with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
One of the more innovative components in SQL Diagnostic Manager is the alert actions and responses. This is the part of SQL Diagnostic Manager that...
Who uses SQL Admin Toolset and what is their experience?
Are you curious about who the customers of SQL Admin Toolset are in terms of the organization, industry, and country? Are you curious about what the...
FluidShell – A Primer – SQL Server Edition
Welcome to this first of three blog posts that would cover the basics of getting practical usage of Aqua Data Studio's FluidShell. Introduction:...
How to plan capacity, monitor Always On availability groups, report, and integrate with PowerShell with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance...
How to run prescriptive analysis, monitor server-level waits, and monitor queries with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server.
SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance...
How to monitor tempdb, alert, and integrate with SCOM with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server.
SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance...
How to customize the dashboard, monitor query-level waits, and monitor backups with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server.
SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server helps database administrators to find and fix SQL Server performance...
How can IDERA Database Tools help manage cloud databases in Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
The cloud delivers information technology as a service on-demand, allowing users to only consume the capacity they need. The cloud is the...
How can IDERA Database Tools help manage cloud databases in Microsoft Azure?
The cloud is becoming increasingly important to data professionals and to their management. There are a variety of cloud delivery...
Where to start with performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server
For a database professional, the most dreaded time is when the database server is unresponsive so that it does not serve the application requests....
Announcing the General Availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.5.2
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.5.2. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer...
How to look for extra funding for database administration tools
It is difficult for database administrators to run their databases efficiently and effectively without proper funding. Whether you are asking for...
Why should database administrators learn PowerShell?
Microsoft’s PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language. It is an automation platform and scripting language that...
How to be a better accidental database administrator
Data is more important than ever to business success. As data demands continue to skyrocket, many database administrators are given responsibilities...
Do not leave your most valuable backups to chance
Backing up SQL Server databases is one of the most critical tasks that database administrators perform in their SQL Server environments every day....
Selected strengths of SQL Diagnostic Manager
In many organizations today, Microsoft SQL Server supports applications that are critical to organizations where downtime and poor performance has...
Database Backup & Restore – Free Resources
World Backup Day This year, World Backup Day was on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Per my blog post from two years ago “Guidelines for Backup and Recovery...
How to better understand SQL indexing to improve SQL Server performance
Indexes in SQL Server databases can have the most significant positive impact on the performance of SQL Server instances, or they can be the worst...
How to tune SQL Server in the cloud
As organizations migrate their databases to the cloud, database administrators need to consistently manage databases on-premise and in the cloud...
How to backup and restore SQL Server in the cloud
As organizations migrate their data to the cloud, database administrators need to consistently manage data on-premise and in the cloud with existing...