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  • Gita Sharifi
    • 17 Jul 2017

    Spotlight 12 Plan Visualization

    A Picture is worth a thousand words! Execution plans can help us identify the performance hog sections of SQL code that impact CPU usage and I/O operations. Addressing these bottlenecks can ultimately help us achieve the best execution times. What if an execution plan could go even beyond what we have in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). For example, what if we could see a plan based on environment specific metrics...
  • Aaron Mares
    • 27 Jun 2017

    What are Organizations in Spotlight Essentials and how do you manage them?

    It is now possible for you to sign in and create an organization in Spotlight that your whole team can join. You simply create the organization and invite others to join and share their monitoring and analysis data with you. Until now if your team each had their own separate Spotlight accounts you couldn’t easily share your monitoring and performance data with them, but now you can. You can now share data with...
  • Gita Sharifi
    • 30 May 2017

    Can Spotlight Monitor Tempdb Database?

    Absolutely! Spotlight performance monitoring can do it all. It can monitor the health of your Tempdb, so you can have the peace of mind of knowing that Spotlight’s got you covered. It not only ensures best practices by being on the lookout for configuration related issues. It also alerts you of any possible Tempdb contention and excessive database usage. Spotlight monitors tempdb and reports issues by through the...
  • Jason Hall
    • 25 May 2017

    What's Cool in Spotlight Enterprise Version 12.0

    On Tuesday, May 23rd, Spotlight Enterprise version 12.0 was released to the wild. There are a considerable number of enhancements, both big and small, that are included in this release (for the full list, check out the release notes ). Without diminishing the value of each and every enhancement (many of which came straight from our customers requests), I wanted to highlight those enhancements that I am most excited about...
  • Gita Sharifi
    • 10 Apr 2017

    Deploy, Customize and Schedule Spotlight Reports in SSRS

    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 11.7.0+ versions is C:\Program Files (x86)\Quest Software\Spotlight on SQL Server\Plug-ins\Trending\SSRS. Not only Spotlight provides users with the raw RDL files but also provides the pre-built...