In part one of this blog series, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms.  In part two, we will discuss the new and enhanced features…

In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…

In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture/) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…

  When a large customer appreciation company needed to categorize their Oracle auditing data by region, SharePlex came to their rescue.  They were already using SharePlex’s Change History feature to track the userid’s, timestamp...

A large educational Institution recently approached us with a problem.   Their Student Information and Financial databases were in Oracle, and a data warehouse containing extracts from both of these used for decision making, including opening more sections…

Off-roading, Maps, and Nine Gray Hairs We all tend to spend most of our time on the “turnpike” of a product’s feature set: you know, the “power” set of its features that get us to many of our endpoint destinations withi...

 

It doesn’t matter what type of organization you are; small, big, public or private – everyone has a database of some description. Databases come in many forms from Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, SQL to a litany of lesser known databases. The database, for…

When it comes to choosing a virtualization platform there are many questions to ask, and often it's not just the technical requirements; financial pressures will impact the decision as well. With the release of Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and SCVMM,…

In this post, I’d like to focus on what has changed over the last 10 and 20 years in Capacity Planning and its challenges. Make sure to read Capacity Planning Part 1 before continuing on. I will start by covering couple of very important issues…

How Available Is Your Master Data?

A major financial institution recently completed a project to consolidate all of their employee information, including credentials for building and online access, into a single database. Of course, they protected their…

The first customer was starting an Oracle EBS implementation and wanted to know if Stat would support changes in their instance strategy.

A few months ago I spent some time with a customer that was suffering from periodic SQL Server outages.  In most of these cases, the database servers were not actually going down, but applications were having difficulty connecting to them due to excessive…