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The Magic Of SQL Scripts: Do What Counts, Don't Count What You Do

Dear All SolarWinders,

I would like to kick off an exciting series of articles around monitoring workflow that I have created for the past few month.

A year ago I have discovered SolarWinds product (actually - platform, not just product) and it simply blew me away. I could not believe what these guys at Austin TX have done. This Thing Just Works! ... and with a bit of imagination and persistence from my side this platform would do virtually anything what I had my mind up to. Now, I am at the stage of my second breakthrough in working with SolarWinds - I have discovered the power of SQL scripts... and I just simply can't stop scripting... emoticons_happy.png

I hear some of you are saying - "Hell no, SQL sounds like too much. I better stick with NEXT > NEXT > CLICK > CLICK > DRAG > DRAG = DONE". And you would be absolutely right. I was thinking the same. Besides - I have never done any SQLing before and on top of that SolarWinds Product Team already does pretty awesome job of enabling you to not to go beyond GUI and still achieve extraordinary results anyway. Why on earth would you start SQL scripting?! ... Just watch this space and you will be amazed by the power of SQL scripts (I would add basic SQL scripts) that you can deploy in your environment.

Here we go...

Below are some bonus articles:

Thank You,

Alex Soul

www.pixace.com

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  • Hi Steven, good point, thanks. I will be including version from now on

    Scripts above mostly for NPM 11.0. I will need to adopt them for the latest 11.5 at some point, but the changes are minor. I am actually running into the problem of keeping up with schema changes every time there is a major SW release - I might need to move towards SDK Tools and APIs to make it more sustainable for the future releases and upgrades

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  • Hi Steven, good point, thanks. I will be including version from now on

    Scripts above mostly for NPM 11.0. I will need to adopt them for the latest 11.5 at some point, but the changes are minor. I am actually running into the problem of keeping up with schema changes every time there is a major SW release - I might need to move towards SDK Tools and APIs to make it more sustainable for the future releases and upgrades

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