For many professionals who’ve never had the chance to try it, full-time remote work might seem like pure upside—even luxurious. On days when rush hour commutes, shared fridge space, and raucous office mates threaten to…
5 Tips for DBAs on Working Remotely
Solving MySQL Replication Lag With LOGICAL_CLOCK and Calibrated Delay
Preetam Jinka published a post on his personal blog examining how his engineering team had overcome a problem with MySQL replication by using a new parallelization policy introduced in MySQL…
The Virtues of a Code Slush
People tend to look for sturdy, expansive safety nets when facing risky situations. In database management, organizations turn to the sweeping strategy of code freezes during times of hectic, peak activity.…
Make Life Easier Using the Environment Health Overview
What’s the Environment Health Overview? The SentryOne Environment Health Overview is one of the most exciting features introduced in SentryOne v11. It is a Start Page-integrated dashboard that leverages SentryOne’s…
#BackToBasics / T-SQL Tuesday: Are your backups worthless?
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday, the 85th in the long-running monthly series started by Adam Machanic, is being hosted by Kenneth Fisher (@sqlstudent144).
Everyday Profiling and Calculating Query CPU
When you find spikes in your database’s CPU consumption, locating the cause behind those peaks can be a daunting task. Database server software doesn’t make it easy to precisely analyze what’s…
Collecting and Alerting on Deadlocks for SQL Server
SolarWinds DPA can collect a count of the number of deadlocks to be displayed as a resource graph. For Ignite versions prior to 8.2, you can update two files in…
Why DPA Uses SQL Server Trace Flag 2861 and Zero Cost Plans
About zero cost plans in SQL Server OK, first thing first, what is a “zero cost plan” in SQL Server? I did some digging around and found the following links,…
Monitoring for Black Friday: Capacity Planning Techniques
In our latest webinar, Baron Schwartz talked about how to best prepare for potential traffic spikes during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Although some organizations may not experience a seasonal…
Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think
Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot of…