When an application slows down, the first question is always the same: is it the host, or is it the database? See how one bank’s NOC answered it in minutes, and how unified IT monitoring takes the guesswork out of triage.
Disaster recovery strategy starts with two questions: How much data can you lose, and how quickly must you recover?
In this article and accompanying webinar, Kevin Kline explains how building a resilient database disaster recovery strategy starts with two vital questions: how much data can you lose, and how quickly must you recover? Explore key considerations for RPO, RTO, SQL Server backups, availability groups, and monitoring.
Checkout was slow. Every dashboard said it was fine…
In this fictional incident, Owen Murphy shows how an application owner can turn a vague slowdown into a focused database investigation.
AI is moving quickly, and DBAs need practical context on what’s happening under the hood. This post is an overview of the LLM internals for DBAs covered in the session. In the article, database expert Kevin Kline looks at how large language models work at a practical level.
Database Alerting Best Practices That Cut Alert Fatigue and Help DBAs Respond to What Matters
Most database teams don’t have an alerting problem. They have a trust problem. This post is an overview of the database alerting best practices covered in the session. In the article, database expert Kevin Kline looks at what makes a good alert and how to turn noise into signal. He also covers throttling, digests, escalation paths, and baselines, plus how SolarWinds tools support them. It doesn’t cover everything, so watch the on-demand webinar for the full walkthrough and demos.
Healthy dashboards don’t always tell the whole story. Our Q4 webinars help you uncover hidden database problems, understand what’s causing them, and decide what to do next.
Want to speak to an expert directly?
Database estates keep growing, but DBA headcount rarely keeps pace. Our State of the Database Report shows DBAs now spend most of their week on reactive firefighting across three to five platforms per organization. Burnout is pushing experienced DBAs out of the role.
In this post, Kevin Kline breaks down the habits that let a single DBA scale coverage without adding headcount. These include treating database code as code, shifting SQL quality checks left, and layering in AI-driven anomaly detection.
A fun, detailed walkthrough in SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer shows exactly how evidence-based root cause analysis turns a vague business complaint into a resolved problem in minutes.
SAP HANA performance comes from deliberate architectural choices. It keeps active data in memory, relies heavily on columnar storage, and supports transactional and analytical workloads on the same platform.
Understanding those choices helps explain why SAP HANA can be fast, why sizing and query design matter, and why architecture-aware monitoring is important in production.
Register for our live SolarWinds webinars on database alerts, SAP HANA troubleshooting, portfolio updates, and app-to-database tracing.
Learn how to prioritize SAP HANA query tuning, resolve blocking, and validate performance improvements with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer.