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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…

All is well. Megan is having a good day. She’s a SQLServer DBA and her environment is humming along. Then…. someone drops a critical table bringing efficient data retrieval to a screeching halt. Now what? It’s a weekday morning and business…

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…

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…

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,…

Many things can happen if the database runs out of disk space. None of them are good. DBAs understand that it is essential to monitor database disk space so that critical business processes are uninterrupted. Quest’s Foglight provides peace of mind by…

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…

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…