Everyday Profiling and Calculating Query CPU
12/09/16 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 pre…
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Collecting and Alerting on Deadlocks for SQL Server
12/07/16 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 order to s…
Why DPA Uses SQL Server Trace Flag 2861 and Zero Cost Plans
12/07/16 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, which I would…
Monitoring for Black Friday: Capacity Planning Techniques
11/23/16 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 n…
Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way You Think
11/18/16 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…
What is ACID and How Should I Think About It As a Developer?
11/09/16 For the average reader, the phrase “expert in ACID” most likely evokes a picture of either an eminent chemist or a jolly Deadhead. However, in the world of computer scienc…
Agents Maintenance Windows “Balance User Control With Performance”
10/25/16 It should go without saying that we want all of our customers to have access to the latest, most up-to-date components of SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM). W…
Smart RBAC and SSO Implementation Improves Security, Management, and Workflow
10/17/16 SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s (DPM) recent introduction of two important product features—Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Single Sign-On (SSO)—gives us t…
New User Security and Compliance Enhancements with RBAC and SSO
10/13/16 We’re thrilled to announce a brand new set of capabilities available in VividCortex that address an ongoing challenge for users, and engineering and application team manag…
How Color Schemes and Query Latency Bands Help With Database Monitoring
09/23/16 In this post, we’ll explore some powerful visualizations that are vital to monitoring, and we’ll take a look at a few of the attributes that make them so effective—specifi…
How to Successfully Evaluate a Monitoring Tool
09/13/16 In a previous post, I covered how to make a decision on whether to “Build or Buy” a monitoring solution. The ability to evaluate which offerings are on the market is a key…
5 Monitoring Myths That Deserve to Be Busted
08/04/16 There’s no doubt that effective application performance management can be a daunting goal. As businesses have demanded increasingly complex tasks from their technology, th…