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Webcast with Brent Ozar – Are AlwaysOn Availability Groups Right for You
Join our next webcast on February 24 for the kickoff of the Geek Sync series. Our speaker, Brent Ozar, will be discussing “Are AlwaysOn...
SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.0 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.0. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
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...
SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.0 Preview
Some of you have already volunteered to participate in the SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.0 Beta and should have received links to the beta release...
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 Diagnostic Manager 9.0 Beta
We are pleased to announce that SQL Diagnostic Manager 9.0 will soon be available for beta testing. Please note that this will be pre-release code...
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...
SQL Admin Toolset 1.8 Released
We’re happy to announce that SQL Admin Toolset 1.8 has been released. This version adds full support for SQL Server 2014 for all tools in the...
The New Idera SQL Enterprise Job Manager is Here!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Idera’s new SQL Enterprise Job Manager 1.0. To download a free trial version, please visit...
3 Cool SQL Server TSQL Snippets for Productivity
Nobody would want to shy away from some help. This is second to human nature and we never try to talk it out explicitly. When at work, if we can...
5 Different Ways to Start SQL Server Services
If nothing works, then a restart works. This is the exact sentiments that an Administrator has when it comes to working with software. If you are...
SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.6 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.6. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
SQL Elements 1.2 is now available!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Elements 1.2. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera Customer...
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....
Diagnostic Manager 8.6 Beta
We are pleased to announce that SQL Diagnostic Manager 8.6 will soon be available for beta testing. Please note that this is pre-release code and...
SQL Server Tip: Optimizer using Index Scan and not Seek!
Other than coding, most of the time developers have to troubleshoot problems from their environments. Developers in SQL world would mostly face...
Performance Improvements with SQL Server 2014
Whenever there is new model of any vehicle launched in the market, it is expected it should have some enhancements or new features which would make...
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 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...
SQL Safe 7.4 is now available
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe 7.4. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera Customer Portal....
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...