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SAM 2020.2.6 added Fetching Method Skip Fallback to disable specific fallback methods for component monitors. This is great! * https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/release_notes/sam_2020-2-6_release_notes.htm: Fetching Method Skip Fallback: For many component monitors, you can already set the…
This blog contains the answer to a question in this month's thwack mission (week 4). Enter this week to win a Slingbox 500! I had the pleasure to speak with Thomas Löfstrand of Nethouse, a SolarWinds business partner located in Sweden. Thomas recently evaluated the new features of Server & Application Monitor. JK: I…
What I would like to request is that Solarwinds look into SQL monitoring for Azure environments (this requires some certificate trickery) in order to query SQL databases and instances from within Azure. I'm extremely glad that SQL monitoring was enabled and this would be a great next step for the expansion into the SQL…
What is Index Fragmentation? SQL server has indexes for organizing data within the database. Having a clean index helps you perform SQL operations efficiently. When you modify or update the data in your SQL server, the index content scatter. This scatter is what’s referred to as index fragmentation. Why does it occur?…
Because Microsoft SQL Server is such a widely used database, slowdowns within its environment can lead to issues for multiple applications. More often than not, the root cause of such slowdowns is usually memory bottlenecks. There are many issues that affect SQL Server performance and scalability. Let’s look at a few of…
Typically IT admins spend a significant amount of time managing SQL servers because of the volume of data usage and the number of applications accessing SQL databases. This also makes it difficult to optimize SQL server performance. Let’s get into the details of what you need to optimize and how to improve the performance…
I cannot emphasize how much I think the new interface for viewing SQL databases is a big step forward for SAM. However, I'd love to see the same thing (similar UI/information) be configured and/or created for viewing of Oracle databases as well. Is this something that can be looked into? I think it would be very…
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