• 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…

  • Quest Customer Story: Sticking With What Works

    In an earlier blog, I wrote about a company’s success with Quest’s flagship SQL Server monitoring and diagnostics solution – Spotlight Enterprise. The blog detailed a customer success story and revealed detailed use cases explaining how this application…

  • “License and Registration, please…” Spotlight

    So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It simply expires after the 30 days. There are a couple…

  • Are You a Workaholic DBA? The Secret to Achieving Enviable Work-Life Balance

    I’ll admit, the concept of the DBA workaholic used to be an oxymoron. Not too long ago, many of us worked strictly in “Oracle shops” where we had time to indulge our photography hobbies in between tasks. I don’t know about you, but I used to do a fair…

  • Tune Your Queries with SQL Optimizer (Pt 1)

    One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are:

    1. Minimize Response Time – End users who are interacting with data want that data as quickly as possible. It may…
  • I’ve Forgotten Why I’m Out of Memory: JVM Settings for Foglight

    As you might suspect, I had difficulty coming up with a witty title for this blog. However, I rather enjoy people rolling their eyes when I make bad jokes. Given the topic is about memory settings for Foglight’s Management Server (FMS) and Foglight’s…