Some database problems are easy to see. Others stay hidden beneath healthy-looking dashboards, growing instance counts, or an apparently routine workload. This October, four practical webinars explore what it takes to find the signal, understand the cause, and respond with confidence.
Across the series, you’ll learn how AI can help scale DBA coverage, how to investigate application slowdowns across the application-to-database boundary, what sysadmins and IT generalists should know about databases, and how baselines and benchmarks make performance changes easier to measure.
Choose the session that matches your role, or register for more than one to build a broader view of database performance and observability.
If a webinar date has passed, you can still register to watch the session on demand.
More databases, same headcount? Scaling DBA coverage with AI-driven RCA
October 6, 2026 | With Kevin Kline
Managing a large, multi-platform database estate is demanding. Each platform brings its own strengths, weaknesses, and operational quirks, and that complexity grows across hybrid, cloud, and on-premises environments.
This practical session looks at how database teams can scale coverage across hundreds of instances and multiple database platforms without adding headcount. You’ll see how a filterable, searchable view, AI-driven anomaly detection, and multi-dimensional root-cause diagnostics can help teams move from an anomaly to the query behind it.
The session also covers how to investigate wait time, blocking, and resource pressure in one workflow, helping DBAs approach complex estates with greater confidence.
Register for the October 6 webinar
Everything was green. The app was still slow.
October 8, 2026 | With Owen Murphy
A business-critical application is slow, but the infrastructure dashboards look healthy. When signals point in different directions, application, operations, and database teams can lose valuable time comparing disconnected data, debating ownership, and escalating before the next investigative step is clear.
This guided incident investigation walks through the application-to-database boundary. You’ll see how to frame a slowdown around user and service impact, test competing hypotheses, connect application symptoms to relevant database evidence, and make escalations more actionable.
The session also shows how SolarWinds® Database Observability brings application and database evidence into the same investigation, helping teams build a clearer evidence trail without assuming the database is automatically the cause.
Register for the October 8 webinar
The Top Five Things DBAs Wish Sysadmins and IT Generalists Knew
October 20, 2026 | With Sanj Sandhu
If you’ve ever been handed database duties with little or no formal training, you’re not alone. Many infrastructure practitioners manage at least part of a database estate, even when their background is in systems, cloud, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
This session closes that gap with five practical things working DBAs wish the sysadmins and IT generalists around them understood before the next incident, not during it. You’ll get a clearer sense of where database responsibility starts and stops, along with a practical checklist for the next time the infrastructure dashboard is green but something still feels wrong underneath it.
It’s designed for sysadmins, SREs, DevOps engineers, and infrastructure teams that need more confidence when database issues appear in the middle of an application or platform incident.
Register for the October 20 webinar
Performance baselining and benchmarking for databases
October 22, 2026 | With Kevin Kline
Busy or broken? Without a baseline, it can be difficult to tell whether a SQL Server is genuinely under pressure or simply handling a demanding workload. It is even harder to show whether a change actually improved performance.
In this practical, demo-driven session, Kevin Kline shows how to establish SQL Server performance baselines and benchmark performance under varying workloads. You’ll learn about the metrics that define a SQL Server application’s performance profile, how to collect and use baselines and benchmarks, and how SolarWinds® database tools build baseline and performance-metric capabilities in natively.
The session includes live demonstrations using native Microsoft tools and HammerDB, making it useful for DBAs, database administrators, developers working with SQL Server performance, and anyone responsible for tuning or troubleshooting SQL Server workloads.
Register for the October 22 webinar
Save your spot
Whether you’re managing hundreds of database instances, investigating an application slowdown, supporting databases without a DBA background, or trying to establish a more reliable performance profile, there’s an October session for you.
