While your database handles requests from end-users, it starts to consume various resources. With increased number of requests, the database may suffer from resource waits. Excessive wait types and times may lead to performance latencies and degradation…

SQL Server provides us with a number of high availability and disaster recovery solutions. Two of them are Always On Availability Groups and Always On Failover Cluster offerings. In order to leverage these options, they themselves need to be constantly…

Spotlight reports are designed in SQL Server Report Definition files (RDL) and stored in the local installation folder of Spotlight client application making them accessible to Spotlight users. By default this path in Spotlight is C:\Program Files (x86…

Spotlight users sometimes ask if it offers baseline capabilities. Though Spotlight does not learn a baseline of workload activity, it does provide the ability to view particular metric values over customizable timeframes. In doing so, it may allow for…

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…

Just like most people’s goal towards incorporating more raw food into their daily diet, accessing and manipulating raw data is very much a coveted functionality.

The Spotlight Statistics Repository database is a repository for historical data collected…

Spotlight Enterprise 12.4 comes with some neat features you do not want to miss!

Query Execution Plans available when needed the most:

The Workload Analysis and the Query Execution Statistics drilldowns expose the most resource intensive transactions…

We all get excited when our cell phone plan includes so called “Unlimited Data.”  But, you know what happens if we push your luck.  That’s right; we start to experience performance issues and get tossed into the dreaded 2G zone!

A similar…

Imagine a world without tomatoes.

Sure, it’d be great if you’re Fozzie Bear or some other old-timey comedian. But for the rest of us? It would totally suck.

Pizza would just be circular cheesy bread.

Spaghetti, a pile of sad, limp noodles…

We’re excited to announce that with Spotlight version 12.3, the Plan Visualizer feature now includes several new enhancements. In my last blog, I covered the Plan Visualizer feature included in version 12.0 which provides a display view of the estimated…

Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues.  The Workload Analyzer of Spotlight Cloud is a very robust query evaluator tool…