Put another way... -> Introduction
What is Spotlight?
Spotlight is a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer (by Quest).
The following is a series of short videos to help you learn and understand the primary capabilities of…
Put another way... -> Introduction
What is Spotlight?
Spotlight is a laser-focused monitoring and diagnostics solution for SQLServer (by Quest).
The following is a series of short videos to help you learn and understand the primary capabilities of…
This short video reviews Spotlight's navigation and workflow. (3:39)
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…
When dealing with large number of connections, the power and advantage of PowerShell API can be leveraged to manage, automate, and administer Spotlight configuration. The efficiency gains obtained through command line access to automate configuration…
The pursuit of historical data and its analysis is a significant part of the functionality that Spotlight on SQL Server users have come to expect and continue to seek improvements upon. In the past, users have expressed the need for ad-hoc query capability…
Spotlight notifies DBAs of performance issues via triggered alarm messages. More importantly, specific actions can be taken based on these alarms, by configuring the Alarm Actions feature of Spotlight. Read our blog about Alarm Actions configuration …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
