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Top 5 Reasons for Slow SQL Server Queries and How to Fix Them
Slow SQL Server Queries are a common issue among database administrators (DBAs). You would be hard-pressed to find a SQL Server DBA who was not...
What Is Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)?
Bare metal to cloud hosted virtual machines Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is a four-letter word in every sense, well beyond simply the number of...
Identifying Performance Problems Part 1
Every server, database, storage appliance and network encounter some sort of performance issues. It is a major part of our job as database...
How to analyze the health of SQL Server database indexes
To keep databases running smoothly, it is important to evaluate the properties and performance statistics of indexes of databases. For this purpose,...
Add SQL Server Instances to SQL Diagnostic Manager
With SQL Diagnostic Manager, monitor the performance of the entire SQL Server environment by quickly and easily adding SQL Server instances. There...
Installing the SQLDM CWF dashboard during a trial
In this blog post, I'll be guiding you through the installation of the SQL Diagnostic Manager and the IDERA Dashboard in a trial...
SQL Performance, Part 2: Query Analysis and Access Path Formulation
In today’s blog post, we turn our attention to query analysis and the ways that SQL gets turned into executable code. The optimization...
How to Find and Fix SQL Server Deadlocks
Introduction Locking is required for concurrent operations of relational databases to prevent data inconsistency and loss. However, locking impairs...
Monitoring Master-Slave Replication in MySQL 8
MySQL 8 introduced a number of enhancements to improve both replication performance and the monitoring thereof. Improvements included more efficient...
Setting up Basic Master-Slave Replication in MySQL 8
Since April 19th, when MySQL 8.0 became Generally Available (GA), the MySQL community has been abuzz with excitement over all of the new features...
Improve MariaDB Performance using Query Profiling
Query profiling is a useful technique for analyzing the overall performance of a database. Considering that a single mid-to-large sized application...
Error Logging in MySQL 8
Although only available as a Release Candidate, MySQL 8 is already proving itself to be a huge leap forward in many regards. Error logging is no...
Database Audit Log Monitoring for Security and Compliance
We recently conducted a webinar on Audit Log analysis for MySQL & MariaDB Databases. This blog will further provide a deep dive into the...
The RDBMS is Dead
If you suspected the title of this blog is click-bait, then you would be correct. But bear with me anyway on a little retrospection of the...
How to monitor Always On availability groups
Always On availability groups are part of an integrated solution with the goal of achieving the highest level of data availability and disaster...
How to monitor and diagnose SQL query performance
Executing resource-intensive SQL queries requires a significant amount of processor time, memory, and bandwidth, and storage. Resource-intensive SQL...
Alert Configuration Templates in SQL Diagnostic Manager
Introduction to Alert Configuration Templates Several versions ago, SQL Diagnostic Manager (SQLDM) introduced Alert Configuration Templates, which...
Getting the Most from Your Software Vendor
This topic is relevant to more than just Idera and it comes from experience working for and with multiple software vendors in multiple...
How to run an application under an account of a different domain
Running Applications as a Different User Outside the Domain Not too long ago, I came across a scenario where a user needed to launch an application...
5 Database Reports In SQL Server Management Tools
Built-in Database Reports in SQL Server Management Studio When connecting to a SQL Server instance in SQL Server Management Studio, there are built...
Why use a Date Dimension Table in a Data Warehouse
In the Data Mart, or the Data Warehouse world, there is a date dimension table in all schemas if you are using the Kimball Dimensional Modeling...
Part 1: Monitoring Analysis Services(SSAS) Performance
So you’re a DBA and your manager comes in and says that the BI team wants to install and configure an instance of Analysis Service. Oh and by the...
Tinker, Tailor, Developer, DBA
Tinker, Tailor, Developer, DBA is not intended as a pitch on a slightly less harrowing book or movie than the John Le Carre classic. ...
Service Broker Gone Wild: Dealing With sysxmitqueue Bloat
Have you ever been surprised by suddenly finding out that one of your databases has grown way beyond your expectations? Hopefully, this isn’t a...
Team DBA and Collaboration
In previous blog posts I have explored the relevance of the DBA position itself in business and the unique ways that SQL Server DBAs tend to...
Top 3 Development Environments for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) supporting extensibility and standards-compliance. Just like any...
2 Ways to identify that we have a bad plan in SQL Server
SQL Server is a complex RDBMS with a lot of capabilities in it. I am sure most of us have just scratched the surface when it comes to working with...
Top 3 Sample Databases for PostgreSQL
If a developer is attempting to learn a new process or test some code, it’s best to utilize a test environment such as a sandbox rather than the...
Top 4 Startup Parameters DBAs Must Know
Introduction Working on a server is always something DBAs cherish. With every environment that they monitor, they want to know how applications can...