Our team is starting to see an uptick in Linux installs for Foglight components, specifically the Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam). Most of these are done at the command line, which can make some settings less than obvious. Things get interes...

Foglight for SQL Server Business Intelligence (BI) provides analysis monitoring for SQL Server BI services: Integration services, Reporting services, and Analysis services. In this (Part 1) blog, the focus is SQL Server Integration Services or &lsquo…

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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 deli...

DBA technology trends are taking over database administration positions. Learn the strategies to survive and thrive as a database administrator.

Die Agenten in Foglight sammeln eine große Anzahl an Metriken, wie die CPU Utilization eines Hosts, die Memory Auslastung, die Anzahl der Ausführungen eines Statements usw.. Derived Metrics bieten die Möglichkeit, mit gesammelten Metr...

Do you also feel lost sometimes when searching for a specific instance on the database overview dashboard? If you monitor hundreds of databases it is easy to lose the overview but there are some options to quickly find the database you need. Table …

Database projects have been growing in demand leaving DBA's responsible for numerous critical tasks at once. Check out our database management resources available to keep up on the latest trends.

Having fun with the "SQL de Mayo" theme at the conference One of the best things about working for Quest has been the numerous opportunities we get to participate in conferences, user groups and meet-ups related to the database technologies.…

A customer asked recently if there is a way to find SQL that references objects that are a certain size. They are evaluating historic queries on tables to find possible candidates for conversion to columnstore indexes. One option is to use the "...

A common question is how to make an exception for 1 or 2 particular databases for certain rules in Foglight. A good example is the "days since last backup" rule for SQL Server. The global default applies to all databases. It's possible from the Databases…

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change “- Heraclitus.

Development, new applications, upgrades, patches, maintenance, schema updates…the list goes on and on around ways that changes are introduced into your environment. Sometimes these…