• Announcing Quest®︎ Foglight®︎ Cloud General Availability!

    Embrace the Future: Foglight Cloud Now Available for Your IT Revolution

    We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…

  • Post up with Postgres v. 15!

    The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced the release of Postgres version 15!

    Some of the notable feature enhancement additions include:

    1. Addition of the MERGE command - SQLServer and Oracle have had this command for some time now and its…

  • Evaluating Foglight vs Oracle Enterprise Manager

    As part of most any database monitoring software evaluation, it includes comparing that software to similar solutions. Logically, it often means doing head-to-head comparisons to database tools that come bundled with that particular DBMS. Regularly, I…

  • Postgres v. 14 has been released and it is SCARY good!

    Postgres v. 14 snuck up on us and was released about a month ago.

    The community continues to kill it with advancements in innovation.

    Have a look at these frighteningly powerful enhancements and additions.

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    PostgreSQL 14 now supports the syntax…

  • The "Last First" Series - Foglight PI - Dimensional Analysis

    For over two decades, as a Database Sales Engineer, I have provided technical demonstrations either in-person, online, or in a recorded format. It takes a particular honed skillset to accurately distill technical information and position solutions in…

  • "Rabbit, Rabbit!" - Podcast Ep 04 – Are You Prepared For Your Time Away?

    "Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…

  • Vlog - A Spotlight on.... Spotlight!

    Put another way... -> Introduction 

    What is Spotlight? 

    Spotlight is a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer (by Quest).

    The following is a series of short videos to help you learn and understand the primary capabilities of…

  • Vlog - Spotlight Alarm Actions

    This short video reviews Spotlight's Alarm Actions. (4:14)

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  • Vlog - Spotlight Templates

    This short video reviews Spotlight's Scheduling and Alarm Templates. (7:22)


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  • "Rabbit, Rabbit!" - Podcast Ep 03 – Is Your Database Pulling its Weight?

    Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good luck…

  • Vlog - Spotlight Workload and Wait State Analysis

    This short video reviews Spotlight's Workload and Wait State Analysis dashboards. (4:53)


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  • Vlog - Spotlight Playback

    This short video reviews Spotlight's Playback feature. (4:33)

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  • "Rabbit, Rabbit!" - Podcast Ep 02 - Are You Ready for Change?

    "Rabbit, Rabbit!" - a superstition found in Britain and North America wherein a person says or repeats the words "rabbit", "rabbits" and/or "white rabbits" aloud upon waking on the first day of a month, to ensure good…

  • Vlog - Spotlight Navigation and Workflow

    This short video reviews Spotlight's navigation and workflow. (3:39)

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  • Vlog - Spotlight Architecture Overview

    Are you looking for a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer?

    If so, you're in the right place!

    This short video reviews Spotlight's architecture and requirements. (2:59)

    Installation is simple and takes only a few minutes…

  • Can Foglight Integrate with ‘X’? Probably…

    One of the most common questions I am asked when speaking with evaluators of Foglight is, “Can Foglight integrate with <insert solution here>? …Remedy, ServiceNow, SCOM, Splunk, Teams... The list goes on and on. This inquiry really comes as no…

  • Hands-On, Heads-Up, Heads-Together

    These are difficult times we are in now but we will persevere. Hopefully, you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy. Most of us are anxious to get back to some sort of normalcy. But, for now, for many of us, the situation has created the need…

  • (Another) Foglight Countdown!

    ( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... )

     

    We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.

    • “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”. Correct lyric: “Excuse…
  • Introducing user level access with Spotlight 13.0

    Spotlight 13.0 introduces a brand new feature of managing access to monitored connections at the user level. It provides the ability to assign or deny a user access to a set of connections that have been configured to be monitored in Spotlight.

    The need…

  • Can you believe this Administration?!

    What’s that you say? You think it may not be appropriate that a technology blog dive into politics?

    Agreed. Instead, this blog highlights the breadth of Administration capabilities available in Foglight for Postgres.

    Administration options are available…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 3 (of 3) – CRS and Exadata

    This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle. These monitoring options come included at no additional cost and illustrate how broad and complete Foglight is as an Oracle monitoring solution…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 2 – ASM

    This blog series discusses each of the ‘tabs’ that can be found on the Database Home page in Foglight for Oracle.

    Part 1 of the blog covers Foglight’s monitoring for Oracle’s Data Guard.

    https://www.quest.com/community/quest/performance…

  • Identify Long Running Queries with Foglight

    April 15, 2019.....Let’s give a shout out to all those men and women running the Boston Marathon today.

    Man, running for that long must be taxing. Taxing…..wait…what day is it again?

    So, as my way of giving a nod to long runners,…

  • We Put It On Our Tab – Complementary Oracle Monitoring with Foglight Pt 1 – Data Guard

    Hold on, grammar and spelling enthusiasts. Already, you might be thinking, did he mean ‘Complementary’ or ‘Complimentary’? The answer? YES. This blog series focuses on additional Oracle monitoring capabilities beyond monitoring the Oracle instance…’complementary…

  • The Foglight Countdown

    We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.

    • "Sweet dreams are made of cheese”. Correct lyric: “Sweet dreams are made of these” from The Eurythmics’…