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2020-04-16
How to use RAISERROR() in T-SQL to send annotations to SQL Monitor, so you can observe the direct impact of application tasks, or server changes, on the SQL Server metrics.
2020-03-27
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Splunk is a search engine for collecting and analyzing all sorts of "machine data", including log data and metrics for SQL Server. SQL Monitor gives you the detailed diagnostic view of all your SQL Server instances, and databases. If you have Splunk to monitor your applications and server infrastructure, and SQL Monitor to help you understand the behavior of a complex database system such as SQL Server, then you have a powerful and capable monitoring tool set.
2020-01-24
Managing 100s of business-critical servers across multiple continents became a struggle for BMW. SQL Monitor provided a fast and powerful solution that allowed them to scale to their business needs. Availability has since increased to 100% and doubled the speed of delivery. Learn how here.
2019-11-21
When growth was expected on the horizon for Fiducia & GAD, hiring more DBAs was not an option. With SQL Monitor they were able to scale at an unprecedented rate- 150 new servers and 70+ applications in one year.
2019-11-07
As we approach 2020, demand for more frequent deployments continues to rise. With this, management of SQL Server availability needs to evolve.
Now’s the time to consider how SQL Server monitoring could improve your deployment performance. In this whitepaper, learn how SQL Server monitoring can help your development and DBA teams work together to remove bottlenecks and enable faster, more reliable deployments.
2019-11-04
Are you ready for growth in 2020? Whether that means wider business growth which you and your team will be expected to support, expansion of your SQL Server estate, or even your own professional development. Join Redgate in this free webinar on November 20th and be prepared for the coming year.
2019-11-01
This article explains the basic components of a tech stack, and the decisions and requirements that affect how and where monitoring tools generally, and a specialist SQL Server monitoring tool like SQL Monitor, in particular, fit into your stack.
2019-10-24
SQL Monitor 9.1 offers a new PowerShell Alert API to control and fine tune your alert configuration, across a group of servers, and a new Server Permissions Overview table, which summarizes who has access to a server via a “super-privileged” server-level role. Here Redgate's Rebecca Woof dleves into the details.
2019-10-01
In this blog post Rebecca Woof walks us through the new features of SQL Monitor 9.1. With PowerShell API alerting and a new permissions table the latest release addresses challenges that come with a growing SQL Server Estate.
2019-09-25
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While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers