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I can see the benefits to this. How does it handle wireless clients?

Good article. Thanks for sharing.

Good information. Keeps the knowledge-base growing. 

The ability to visually experience the user process is a major enhancement to solving problems quickly. It takes me all the way back to my PDP/11 days and remote controlling a user's terminal when they needed assistance. The tools definitely have gotten better, less resource intensive, more diagnostic and monitoring…

Helpful article!

I agree that this is a good article and I too will be sharing this. We are spinning up new SQL servers and I think our juniors DBA's will gain from learning the parameter settings. Thanks!

Good discussion. Thanks.

Great article. Thanks for posting.

Thanks!

Therein lies the subjective nature of determining ROI. Unfortunately, there is not absolute objective method and view of the value. It's not like we can just add a category to SW to monitor it

These are handy lists. 

Interesting.

Interesting.

I agree. 

Since I changed companies, I can definitely see the value of NCM and being able to manage config changes. Also, reports are expandable but functional.

This was very helpful. The visual helped me get a more detailed look at how this functionality works. Thanks!

I agree. I have adopted the attitude that I have been hacked. Now, what can I do to ensure that it is not followed. Spend lots of time reading and securing posts, auditing configurations, looking for ways to shutdown all but the minimum required access. The hardest part of security is those that are on the inside of the…

Thanks for sharing.

Insightful yet true statements. Thanks for posting.

Educational.

This brought back good memories of life in IT from my past 30 years. Thanks!

It becomes a tightrope walk trying to gather the relevant IT data and then processing and presenting in a fashion that shows how IT operations is inline or out-of-line with the business objectives and goals. In some ways, the reporting should provide a salesmanship opportunity to allow the business to understand its own…

Good reference material. THanks for sharing.

Helpful information.

Helpful posting. Good reference article.

Change management is always a sore subject. Companies need to have strong but flexible change management policies and procedures. These are good points in the posting. Thanks!

Food for thought.

Welcome! Welcome!

Nice article. Very helpful and informative. Thanks!

Nice concise article. It is always interesting to see how we re-frame and re-shape the same basic concepts but we keep moving forward.