Our data and systems are frequently under attack these days.  A more traditional attack is from external threats like viruses or hackers trying to gain access from outside of your environment.  Threats from inside your environment are on the increase though…

PST files in an Enterprise environment can create a variety of issues ranging from security problems, data leakage and administrative overhead. Moving PST files into an Office 365 archive mailbox can help eliminate the problems PST files create. In this…

I was recently asked by a colleague if Foglight had any ability to tell if a specified port is open on a host. I dug through my archives of custom agents that have been developed over the years, and I found one called PortMonitor (attached version 1.…

One of the first questions that I like to ask any customers that I work with is “how many VMs do you have?” This gives me a good understanding of how large their environment is. Do they have less than a 1,000 VMs? 1,000 to 3,000 VMs? Or do they have…

I'm very happy to report that a new release of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise (version 11.7) is now available.  This is a relatively minor release, mostly including fixes, although there are two enhancements worth mentioning.  One that has been…

Whether it’s hitting sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats DMV with calculated queries, collecting Perfmon Disk Counter statistics, reviewing Resource Monitor Disk information, or keeping your storage admin close by, I/O issues are all too familiar a concern.…

Yup, time to reflect back and think of what you’re thankful for the most - your Active Directory. But what do you really know about the last meal (your bank account was sentenced to death, due date - Black Friday) and your job? Test yourself in our trivia…

I speak with administrators all the time that get alarms from objects they don’t care about, because in Foglight alarms generally apply to all your objects. An alarm comes in and you stop what you’re doing to check it out, and it’s usually about…

MessageStats had an amazing run as an Exchange reporting solution, but then the product team began adding different elements to it around archiving, OWA (Outlook Web Access), mobile devices and of course Lync. The product changed from an Exchange only…

Connecting.
We do it every day.
Person to person – and on a network level, database client to database platform.

Toad for Oracle’s legacy has always been about increasing performance, configuration, and internal self-help in solving technical…

“The most significant business benefit of DevOps is faster delivery of features.” If most of the people you asked about DevOps told you that, wouldn’t it be worth a try? Think of how much innovation DevOps adoption could introduce t…

When installing SharePlex one of the things you need to do is verify the installation is working by using the SharePlex test tables before using your own tables. 

There are a couple of scripts you can run to do this but in the video I recorded I show you…