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Daily SQL Server Performance Checklist for DBAs

Oct 8, 2021 By Monica Rathbun In SolarWinds
A main focus for database administrators (DBAs) is to ensure server environments are optimized and performance is at its peak. Whether you’re a DBA starting in a new role and are evaluating an existing environment for the first time, or you’re a senior database professional with the ongoing task of maintaining optimal performance, following key SQL Server best practices for installing, configuring, and ensuring new instances of SQL Server are consistently deployed is all in a day’s work.
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What's New With Pingdom?

Oct 7, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
SolarWinds Pingdom is focused on making web application monitoring simple and easy to use, yet still powerful and affordable. In the past six months, we’ve made several updates we’re excited to share with you. These new features come at no additional cost and all customers regardless of tier level have access to them. The updates were launched with two main benefits in mind: ease of use and quick set up. We’ll walk through our latest updates from 2020 including.
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Modernizing Network Operations: How to Check All the Boxes

Oct 7, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Stakeholders expect their network to be fast, prioritized for business, secure, compliant, and cost-efficient. With increased traffic, applications, and services and the complexity of networking technologies to support business needs, companies need a strategy to efficiently monitor and manage the network to quickly respond to business requirements.
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Understand the End-User Experience With Holistic Monitoring

Oct 7, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
You’re expected to monitor the entire end-user experience, so you need to be able to do it all. SolarWinds can help. Together, SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) and SolarWinds Pingdom can give you the holistic monitoring you need, especially with the recent integration we’ve announced. While WPM monitors the experience of the end users behind your firewall, Pingdom monitors the customers and prospects on the outside of it. With WPM and Pingdom, you can have a holistic view of the performance and availability of your various applications. We’ll show you the benefits of adding SolarWinds Pingdom, including the following.
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10 SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices

Oct 6, 2021 By Paul S. Randal In SolarWinds
There are a large number of best practices around SQL Server performance tuning – I could easily write a whole book on the topic, especially when you consider the number of different database settings, SQL Server settings, coding practices, SQL wait types, and so on that can affect performance.
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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Down for Over Five Hours

Oct 5, 2021 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
Did you unconsciously open Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp several times throughout the day on Monday, only to get a “Couldn’t refresh feed” message? Did you try again every 20 or so minutes? Did you maybe even restart your phone, not once thinking websites as large as Facebook could possibly go down and believing it must be your own technology? Rejoice: it’s not you, it’s them.
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Put the Machines to Work for You: A Modern Approach to Increase IT Agility

Oct 4, 2021 By Cary Kostka In SolarWinds
Putting machines to work to enhance our everyday lives has been well-ingrained in our society for at least a couple of centuries now. IT workers use machine learning (ML) in their daily work routines, even if they don’t consciously realize it. Automated email alerts, issue escalations, and security patching are just a few examples of how ML has put the systems we rely on to work for us.
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