Background

We are very excited to announce the general availability of Quest® Foglight® version 6.3.

Foglight is the world’s broadest and deepest monitoring and optimization solution for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight brings unique top-to-bottom…

If you are reading this, chances are you’re considering a 30 day trial of ‘Foglight for Cross Platform Databases’. Before you do, here are a few tips that will help you get a fully functional Foglight installation up and running quickly…

Part 2 of this series will show you how to tune the queries you found by using Workload Analysis (see Part 1).  Additionally, we'll look at the different 'Context' dimensions to help you quickly focus on the right problem. 

  2. SQL Statements…

Database performance issues are a major contributor to the application slowdowns which we all face every day.

DBAs, developers and IT professionals have a daunting task of deciphering the large number of factors that contribute to database wait time.…

As part of one’s Database Management strategy, one of the primary tasks at hand is to keep queries running at peak performance. One of the most impactful ways to do this is to identify ‘Missing Indexes’.

Simply put, Indexes can allow…

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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…

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…

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…

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,…

PostgreSQL has entered an exciting new chapter with the release of version 11 (10/18/18). This blog highlights some of the version 11 additions and improvements to PostgreSQL.

** The information shared in this blog was largely gathered from the postgresql…

Congratulations! You have Foglight installed and it is collecting meaningful performance data. There’s no doubt it is providing a ‘smorgasbord’ of actionable information about your mission-critical environment. Help yourself to delicious servings of baseline…

The bigger the application, and the more composite it is, understanding its Topology becomes a lot more important. What is connected to what? How are the flows for the transactions? Where are the bottlenecks and the slowdowns?

I have seen some really…

It’s been amazing how much creativity and innovation is out there. Customers have been teaching me a lot over the last 20 plus years. Two identical applications behave differently for two different clients and their different customers and in their different…

Java Monitoring for Dev, Test, QA and Prod environments & collection options

Best part of my job over the last 20+ years is working with more than 200 companies and working very closely with a few dozens. The variety that I have been exposed to has…

Java Workload Characterization – Part 2. My 3, 5, 7, 10 Rule

I hope you had a chance to look at do you know where your java transactions are, my Java Workload Characterization – Part 1 blog. And I love to hear what else you can add or suggest to…