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How THWACK Missions Turn Database Community Engagement Into Product Learning
July 21, 2026
SolarWinds

Noun – thwack (plural thwacks)

  1. An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.

Noun – mission (countable and uncountableplural missions)

  1. (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.

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There’s More Than One Way to Monitor Database Performance – SolarWinds Lab Episode #96
June 9, 2021
SolarWinds
Data, and database growth, is exponential. With this added growth comes added complexity, making it difficult to find resolutions when problems arise. And if this wasn’t difficult enough, the hybrid…
What Happens When I Execute a Query?
May 28, 2021
Joey D'Antoni
To many developers and system administrators—and even to some database administrators—database engines are a black box. They’re complex pieces of software that, in some cases, even have their own operating…
How Query Sampling Improves Database Performance
May 20, 2021
Ed Tittel
Given the overwhelming importance of data to organizations, anything they can do to speed up troubleshooting problems in the databases they use is of great value. If a company can…
How to Speed Database Troubleshooting
May 18, 2021
Ed Tittel

Data provides an essential basis for reports and analytics, with the databases storing the data now driving and informing most custom and line-of-business applications.

Why Database Performance Is Key to Understanding Application Health
December 4, 2020
Thomas LaRock
Traditional database and application monitoring used to mean talking about a single server, in a single data center, in a single location. Many monitoring tools were—and still are—built around this…