What if you woke up one morning and found that you had a doppelganger who was enthusiastically running around pretending to be you, spending your hard-earned money and doing who knows what with your identity. It sounds like a nightmare, right? But this…

Understand that this is a general, high-level guide outlining the steps you should expect to take during a Foglight for SQL Server upgrade. Since environments and upgrade circumstances are often different, it is important to review and familiarize yourself…

In a previous post, I explained how to customize alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Recently, I had a customer inquire how he could refine the "Days Since Last Full Backup" alarm. He wanted to be able to exclude specific databases, but specify…

Off-roading, Maps, and Nine Gray Hairs

We all tend to spend most of our time on the “turnpike” of a product’s feature set: you know, the “power” set of its features that get us to many of our endpoint destinations within the product as productively as…

In this post, I’d like to focus on what has changed over the last 10 and 20 years in Capacity Planning and its challenges. Make sure to read Capacity Planning Part 1 before continuing on. I will start by covering couple of very important issues…

When very large tables are out of sync on the target and Compare is not a suitable sync option, it requires a set of coordinated steps to bring them in sync with the source tables. This is especially true if the downtime on the source table is not acceptable…

What’s New for Toad for SQL Server 6.7 – November 2016

This monthly publication will provide new and updated information regarding the products that we offer and organized in the following categories: product notifications, new knowledgebase…

This monthly publication will provide new and updated information regarding the products that we offer and organized in the following categories: product notifications, new knowledgebase articles, product life cycle, services, training, trending videos…

We have activated the “Ideas” portal on the Stat community for Enhancement Request submissions. Anyone in the Community can now post their enhancement requests on the Ideas portal. Community members along with Quest internal employees will be able to…

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As our world becomes faster, our lives busier, our days longer, any shortcut we can find and share with friends is a good thing.

Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts that I use frequently within Stat. I hope that you find them useful as well.

With the advent of Oracle Release 12.2.x, Oracle has delivered to its customers the ability to do online patching for their environments. According to Oracle, this new feature will help customers “greatly  reduce the downtime that was needed in previous…

You’re in the tech industry, you love the latest gadgets and gizmos, you’re all about innovation ― and yet you’re stuck wrangling all the moving parts of managing application changes…manually?

There are probably…

How much of change management, version control and migration management is art, and how much is science?

I worked for an IT director who had been through dozens of audits and migrations. He used to talk about “the Art and Science of IT.”

We have robots that clean floors, planes that practically fly themselves and soon we’ll all be riding around in driverless cars. So why are IT managers, of all people, still expected to do so much work…manually?

Dude, where’s my automation…

Root canal, appendectomy, IT audit. Which is the most painful? Well, considering you’re numb with your feet up for the first two, I’d have to pick the latter.

Few things in life are more of a pain, and cause more stress, than the dreaded…