• 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…

  • Reconsidering the idea of monitoring pre-production database instances

    It is a foregone conclusion that performance monitoring is part and parcel of managing a database instance once it is in production.  But what about pre-production?  Especially when the instance itself is reaching critical phases of testing and quality…

  • 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…