Over the past three months, we’ve been developing a playbook for winning in the database management tools market guided by Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. This best-selling book is co-authored by A.G. Lafley, executive chairman of the…

The mature and stable backup market has seen an influx of innovative technologies over the past few years and organizations can now choose a mix of backup technologies that are just right for them. Backup-to-tape is slowly being phased out and replaced…

Within Toad for Oracle, you can now manually execute Automation Apps within the Toad Intelligence Central Web interface.

In addition, the Toad Intelligence Central Web interface now includes a Team Coding page that displays the status of team coding objects…

Benchmark Factory for Database 7.5 is available for download via the Support Portal. 

“Capturing” is the word of action from this new release.

• Includes capture threshold settings, including CPU utilization, disk space and more to minimize risks…

Starting with version 12.10, Toad for Oracle will bring the Knowledgebase dynamically into the product’s window. No more having to leave an application to search and find answers outside of the product.

Got an error?

No problem.

Click on a button…

The Spotlight Cloud services lets you monitor your servers on the web and mobile devices. It also analyzes your server performance data and gives health checks on your servers, evaluates their capacity and provides other insights into their performance…

As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments.  There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be through typical maintenance efforts such…

Had a question from a customer today about backing up the Foglight for SQL PI database. The customer wants to automate this using command line and the reference guide asks you to deactivate the agent first, via the UI. 

No problem, I said, there is always…

The latest release of the Foglight for Oracle cartridge brings a new dashboard, customer enhancements and various fixes.

There is a new overview dashboard:

It is easier to read with an improved layout. I like the way the various areas are summarized…

Once in awhile, I find myself getting asked why Spotlight isn't firing off an email alert.  If you find yourself in that situation and you have set up an alarm action, here are some quick pointers to help you check the issue.

Run the email test from…

We’ve posted recently about database developers feeling left out of agile processes. You may wonder how application developers can have it so easy – scrums, sprints and automation – to deploy updates at what can seem like an astonishing pace.…

You will see that our quest for a fully web-enabled client is full steam ahead!  We just released Stat 5.8.1.  This is a maintenance release that previews some cool new features and fine tuning of the infrastructure that will be a part of the upcoming Stat…

If we’ve learned anything from the cinematic achievement that is all 72 Fast and Furious films, it’s that high-stakes operations can quickly go awry with the slightest technical glitch. Staying ahead of the competition requires agility and rapid…

I’m sure Oracle DBAs everywhere are keeping their collective ears close to the ground waiting for the official announcement on 12cR2. We still, rightly or wrongly, have a habit of waiting for the 2^nd release of Oracle versions, but that’s for another…

User-Defined Collections enable you to tell Foglight for SQL Server to go beyond the data points it collects out-of-the-box to also collect the results of queries that you define.  So in addition to the vast amount of commonly-needed metrics that Foglight…

It has happened to all of us. We love an application like Toad. However, it would be so much more awesome if the app would do some idea that is currently not in the product. Allow me to introduce you to the Toad “Idea Pond.”

The Idea Pond…

Database developers: Does it feel as though everyone else gets the productivity benefits and fun from agile development, but not you?

In most organizations, agile is taking hold in application development, operations and even marketing. Meanwhile, database…

While it’s no secret that cloud technologies are rapidly changing the way that organizations are running their IT infrastructures, for many organizations that I speak with, databases (and data in general) seem to be the slowest to move.  There are…

A wealth of knowledge on SQL Server Wait Types awaits you in our Waitopedia site. Our in-depth information on SQL Server wait types gives you the upper hand when SQL Server performance is hindered due to one of these wait types.  Wait statistics can point…

I remember as a young lad of 12 years of age writing letters to friends and family that I had grown up with. As I would finish the letter, I would jump on my bike and run to the local post office to purchase a stamp for the letter. I’m not going…

During October 2015, Oracle announced that the Extended Support Fee for Oracle Database 11g R2 will be waived until May 31, 2017. After this period, Extended Support for Oracle Database 11g R2 will be offered until December 2020.

A primary concern for…

Dollar Shave Club’s founder Michael Dubin said something like that in his first viral video about his company, and it completely changed the razor market. For a few bucks a month, his company would ship razors and blades directly to your home once a…

Performance Investigator (PI) collects a lot of workload and performance data about the activity which runs within a database instance. This information is saved in the PI embedded repository which is separate from the Foglight repository. As a result…

We have all read the headlines: Earlier this month, Delta Air Lines experienced a massive power outage that led to the cancellation of thousands of foreign and domestic flights. This seismic event took place at the height of the summer travel season…

In this blog, I want to share a scenario that happens when not all the local components are not present doing a specific type of install.  

When selecting ‘Create a New Connection’ | ‘Salesforce’, there is nowhere to enter the connection data, such as…