In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.
Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.
In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.
Slow SQL Server queries are often the first sign your database is in trouble, but they rarely tell you why performance is degrading.
In this post, we look at how SQL Server execution plans expose the real causes behind slow queries and how SolarWinds® Plan Explorer® helps DBAs turn that insight into faster, more reliable performance.
