Across nearly every industry, organizations depend upon SQL Server applications to drive critical business operations. In fact, the costs of IT...
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How to simplify routine SQL Server administration tasks
Database administrators need simple and quick ways to manage their SQL Server environment. SQL Admin Toolset provides 24 essential desktop tools for...
How to analyze the health of SQL Server database indexes
To keep databases running smoothly, it is important to evaluate the properties and performance statistics of indexes of databases. For this purpose,...
How to ensure that SQL Server databases are backed up on a regular basis
Keep sensitive and mission-critical data safe by performing regular backups of all important databases. Identify any non-backed up databases....
How to migrate SQL Server databases and data files
Do you need to: Move databases from one instance to another (for example, to move a performance-intensive database to a faster hard drive to speed...
Announcing General Availability of Aqua Data Studio 21.0
On behalf of the entire Aqua Data Studio team, we’re excited to announce the release of Aqua Data Studio version 21.0 with Enhancements in the...
How to ensure that SQL Server databases do not have fragmented indexes
Maintain the performance of databases by efficiently retrieving ordered data by resolving the fragmentation of the indexes. View the fragmentation...
How to monitor the health of SQL Server database instances
Determine the health of instances by collecting real-time statistics. Such statistics include backup devices, databases, error logs, locks, logins,...
How can you tune the performance of SQL Server by analyzing the past to predict the future?
The history of mankind says that we have learned a lot from our past mistakes and improved our future. Similarly, SQL Server performance tuning is...
What are the five essential SQL scripts for SQL Server performance tuning?
Performance tuning is a complex subject and one of the most critical. Every manager wants their server to run faster. And every database...
Where do you start with SQL Server performance tuning?
Performance tuning is the methodology of systematically identifying bottlenecks in applications, and improving performance. There are some places to...
Cloud Day 2—High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
One of my favorite topics in cloud computing is disaster recovery. A decade ago, if you wanted to have true disaster recovery across multiple...
How did a large enterprise, banking company in the USA achieve better system uptime and usability?
Mizuho Securities is a large enterprise banking company in the USA. They have 100 to 499 SQL Server databases in their environment. They suffered...
How are you tuning SQL Server in the hybrid cloud?
As organizations migrate their databases to the cloud, database administrators need to manage databases on-premise and in the cloud with existing...
How did a medium enterprise healthcare company in the USA proactively troubleshoot SQL Server issues?
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, Inc. is a medium enterprise healthcare company in Dallas, Texas, USA. They have 10 to 24 SQL Server databases in...
How can you improve the performance, disaster recovery, and security of SQL Server?
SQL Doctor tunes SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments -...
How did an IT consulting firm save time and money on performance fine tuning for SQL Server?
When companies are looking for a SQL Expert to help with performance challenges, they turn to Oregon-based consulting firm Lake IT for experienced...
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...