Foglight for Databases had an amazing year, with several releases for the various Database Cartridges. Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve done in 2017:
The new year kicked off with some big news on January 3rd, 2018 with the news of the Meltdown and Spectre chipset vulnerabilities. There are a lot of resources available to understand the details and potential impact. This one from cnet.com is pretty…
In every SQL Server instance the TempDB database is the common global resource for all the operations taking place and DBA's are particularly cautious about the use of it. Given the nature of applications and ad-hoc queries by users, one must keep…
Maintaining a cross-platform database environment has been common for twenty years or more. For all kinds of business or technical reasons, companies leverage different database types including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 LUW, SAP Sybase, and…
When reporting a Foglight connectivity issue, support people are always asking to test the connection using Telnet or Putty. But what to do if you do not have Telnet or Putty installed?
There are some other options, for example using an Internet browser…
This post is short but hopefully useful. When you start the Foglight server and navigate to the home page URL (http://foglight_server:8080 or https://foglight_server:8443), you may see a startup splash page (below). If you see a login page, then the Foglight…
If you’re like many DBAs, your life is probably getting more complicated by the week. Are you under pressure to manage larger and larger numbers of database instances? Or to adopt new database technologies like open source or NoSQL? With those changes…
Woohoo! Just got word that my boss approved my January vacation and now I’ll get the opportunity to check several items off my bucket list as I hop across country to the Quest Database Fed Forum in DC on February 20th.
On my First stop I will…
Friends. Change is here. All of us DBAs are dealing with it. Look at the number of new database platforms. It’s relentless. They just keep coming. And we’re expected to take on any or all of them that’ll save our companies money. But it’s hard, right…
I recently spoke to a user of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise who wanted to be able to drill into the individual SQL Server instances that are participating in an Availability Group. The customer had successfully created a connection to the Availability…
