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Featured Episode: It’s Easy to Sign Up For Training August 25, 2020 SolarWinds is making it easier than ever to learn about your products. We will always have the THWACK community, documentation, help resources, and videos, but sometimes what you really want is a class. The SolarWinds Academy has been revamped to include…
Featured Episode: Leveraging the Database Performance Analyzer API June 23, 2020 The RESTful API for Database Performance Analyzer is an incredible time-saver if you are working in an environment where databases go in and out of production. You can easily hook a pre-existing automation job directly into the RESTful API and…
Featured Episode: Create Email Alerts With Ease in Database Performance Analyzer June 9, 2020 Providing the most important information in an alert is key to having the recipient take proper action. In this video, I'll show you how to create email alerts quickly and easily within Database Performance Analyzer. See More…
Featured Episode: How to Add PerfStack Widgets to Your Orion Dashboard November 5, 2019 The PerfStack dashboard is an excellent resource for point-in-time troubleshooting and analyzing trends visually. One of the best ways to share this information with other teams is to add an analysis project to a dashboard. In this…
The DBA role is complex. Pitfalls exist everywhere you turn, and it can be difficult to survive and thrive. On this episode of TechPod, we’ll help accidental DBAs become a DBA survivors with career advice from SolarWinds Head Geeks Thomas LaRock and Kevin Kline as well as Denny Cherry, CEO and founder, Denny Cherry &…
Automation has been a disaster for the traditional database administration (DBA) role. As more systems and processes are automated away with code, the need for DBAs decreases. In time, the role of a DBA may disappear altogether. This ongoing series will examine who DBAs are, what they do, and where they’ll go once their…
What is the aggregation scheme or method used in Solar Winds for the database. In optimizing data how do it reduce database space over time. i.e. 1 minutes of data become 1 hour, 1 hour of data becomes 1day, 1 days of data become 1 week, etc.... I have not found a straight forward place that gives that information. Thanks
You finally got approval for SQL® Sentry, and it’s purchased and installed. Now begins the arduous task of manually adding all the targets to be monitored. If you are in a medium to large shop, this can be hundreds to thousands of servers. While this certainly sounds like a job for a junior DBA, we can alternatively…
Today, SolarWinds announced our expanded database performance management portfolio. With the recent acquisition of SentryOne and launch of Database Insights for SQL Server alongside our award-winning Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) and Database Performance Monitor (DPM) solutions, we intend to become the leader in the…
Welcome back! We’re nearing the end of our five-part series, and I hope you’ve gotten the information you need as a DBA to mature your business. In this part of the series, we’ll discuss Level 4 and the importance of servicing customers and teams with the skills acquired in levels one, two, and three. Starting from a place…
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