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We keep noticing that Memory Grant and Total TempDB size columns are sorely missing in the web-based Portal. These exist in the SQL Sentry client, but we need them in the portal as well as they're very useful.
Hi, Several tabs visible in SQL Sentry Performance Analysis (specifically in the Windows client) are missing in cloud-based SQL Server targets, such as Azure SQL Databases and Amazon RDS for SQL Server. I can understand the lack of OS-based tabs such as "Processes", "Disk Activity", "Disk Space", and even "AlwaysOn". But I…
How can significantly increasing network packet size in the connection string have a positive impact on web performance when the MTU across the network is the default 1500? When deploying SolarWinds HCO for an enterprise client we stumbled upon sporadic slowness of the web GUI with no obvious pattern. After heaps of…
2021 holiday travel has been a rebound for the industry. Just this week, I was attempting to purchase flights for a long weekend before travel picks up for the holidays. However, after a failed attempt to sign up for their Executive Club and enduring slow page loads after every click, I abandoned the site and booked…
Many factors have led to the massive increase of online retail sales in 2020 and 2021, including the increasing reliance of online activities from COVID-19. To put the growth into perspective: in 2017 when we last reported on web performance for the world’s leading retail sites, the industry generated around $2.2 trillion…
While there is support for monitoring Azure SQL Databases, the problem is that every Azure SQL Database is added as an entirely separate target. Unfortunately, this means that we don't have a server-level view of an Azure SQL Logical Server and Elastic Pools. This becomes paramount in Elastic Pools, when "noisy neighbors"…
Greetings all. Monitoring my Solarwinds database with... Solarwinds AppInsight for SQL. Seeing both workfiles and worktables per second running about 200-400, which puts both in the critical range for AppInsight SQL out-of-box thresholds, and well over the Microsoft recommended values of < 20. I've read enough about these…
Additional Alert Notifications SolarWinds is thrilled to unveil our latest integrations for SQL Sentry and Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) with ServiceNow® and PagerDuty®. This much-requested enhancement promises to extend your alert notifications, making your IT operations more efficient and responsive than ever…
In our webcast “Turn the Tables on Poor Database Performance”, SolarWinds database expert, Kevin Klein, met with Kellyn Gorman, director of data and AI at Silk. Together they discussed one of the most popular opensource databases on the market—PostgreSQL. For anyone new to working with PostgreSQL, or struggling to…
With SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), you can significantly cut database running costs by optimizing CPU (central processing unit) and memory usage. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) provides an extremely robust toolset for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing database performance across a…
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