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Hi Chad, let's say for example, you only have NPM and you want to evaluate NTA: in the past you would have to also configure a new DB for the Flow Storage DB as part of the evaluation - how is this handled in the instant evaluation?

My role is actually 'SolarWinds Specialist' - which makes me sound not very humble at all if you ask me

Loving this month's mission. If you are like me and use the SolarWinds KB all the time, why not create a custom search engine? This allows you to simply type in a small phrase (I use 'SWS' for SolarWinds Support and 'SWT' for SolarWinds Thwack) and you can search straight to the preferred location Most browsers have a way…

I'll certainly be keeping a record of the ones I'm removing, most of the ones seem to be one-offs that were created to make a swql query easier, done by contractors who are just "trying to get the job done"

Honestly I never thought I'd say this but I've just inherited a platform and there's too many custom properties! Currently pruning them like Gordon Ramsey prunes a menu on Kitchen Nightmares

Thwack staff this month:

For today's question, how can "Better Performance" be true while simultaneously "Faster SQL Joins" is false? My understanding is that SQL Joins speed is directly linked to the performance of the database? 

Great idea, I think that anywhere a query builder exists for newer users, the queries should be fully editable for power users. 

Sims 4 bundle on the PS4 is such a random prize haha, how did that come about? I would have assumed the PC version would have been the obvious choice for platform if anything. 

Woohoo! Looking forward to attending my first ThwackCamp with all you very smart people (TimeZones permitting)

Feel like an idiot for day 1, followed the hint and got more confused! I know subnetting enough that I could have just gotten the answer right with a little thinking. Instead, I went to the calculator, inputted the values in the hint, then when you read up from the bottom you read 192.134.1.1 first, and NOT the…

Hi Adam, did you post this API Poller on Thwack anywhere? Kind regards, Marlie. 

So happy to have my talk chosen for the second day! Really excited to share it with all of you!

If you don't want the alerts showing in the manage alerts page, you could instead look at writing an API script to run nightly on the SolarWinds server. As much as having a UI in the web console would be nice, I think the API method will always be more powerful and full-featured.

@"kpina" I would love to hear what your team have to say on this, if that's okay? Otherwise I'm worried i'm going to lose a chance to learn something. 

Worst case: I can bring my Quest 2 and find a corner somewhere to play Beat Saber :P

It's all virtual so expense a trip to Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach and watch all the talks on your phone! :D

So happy to finally be able to call myself an MVP! Looking forward to continuing to work will all of you over the next year!

10/10 - Finally a puzzle that isn't just reading comprehension! (I suck at reading comprehension <3)

Registered! Hopefully this time I will be able to relax as I won't be speaking, so plenty of networking to do!!

Lacking information from developers/application team about what a TRUE failure looks like. 

Agreed!

We serve food here, sir. 

Oh I'm sure, but what I'm saying is that same join, no matter how bad, would still be faster on a DB instance that is overall faster than another. 

I think this is personally the number 1 helpful report for finding out how your custom properties are being used: (+) Custom Property Impact Assessment - Reports - The Orion Platform - THWACK (solarwinds.com)

Happy Birthday THWACK! Excited to spend my hard-earned points on some shop goodies - with that in mind any chance some of the more popular items will be restocked before June 30th?

Hi there, For your first point you can indeed browse interfaces or other connected devices from the 'entity tree', regardless of if they are currently in the map or not (Make sure you are on the newest 2020.2.6 release as I find this helps): For your second point, that topology is automatically polled and created directly…

Hi there, No worries, you can try the following: select n.caption as [Node] , case when n.host.NodeID is not NULL then n.host.BootTime ELSE n.LastBoot end as [Boot Time] from orion.Nodes n where n.NodeID in (SELECT MemberPrimaryID FROM Orion.ContainerMembers where containerid = ${ID}) order by n.LastBoot DESC I've added…

Hi there, Sorry, can you confirm that you want it to display the last boot time or, in the picture above, the last poll time of the hardware details? You've mentioned for an ESX box but the picture above is a Cisco machine so I'm a little confused. Thanks, Marlie