Monthly Archives: November 2009

Priorities for SQL Response 2

By Ben.Rees | Published: November 25, 2009
One of the things I noticed whilst attending a number of presentations at last weekend’s SQLBits (http://sqlbits.com/ – thank you to the organisers for such a great conference) was a significant amount of variety in the SQL Server monitoring tools currently on the market. In particular I noticed that the emphasis of the different tools [...]
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How would you generate realistic SQL Server activity?

By Chris.Spencer | Published: November 23, 2009
As a tester working on the ground-breaking new version of SQL Response I’m haunted by the following question: “How do you performance test a product like SQL Response?” Yes, I am literally haunted by voices in my head asking me this question. After all, this is a product that needs to exist on a customer’s [...]
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Future of Monitoring at SQL Bits

By Ben.Rees | Published: November 18, 2009
Just a quick message to say that it would be great to meet up with any Future of Monitoring followers at SQL Bits this week. I’ll be there Friday and Saturday, including Friday and Saturday evenings. In fact Red Gate are sponsoring the drinks event on Saturday evening, so please come along to talk about [...]
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Design a Dashboard Prize Draw Winners!

By Adam | Published: November 17, 2009
In September we announced our Design a Dashboard Prize Draw, where we wanted to see your idea of a perfect monitoring dashboard. One of the feature requests that we heard often from v1 users of SQL Response was for a dashboard overview of the system, and we wanted more feedback on what was most important [...]
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The Future of Monitoring at SQL PASS

By Adam | Published: November 12, 2009
Thank you to everyone who came to talk to us at the Red Gate booth at SQL PASS last week. We really appreciate that so many people took the time to let us know what they want to see in a monitoring tool. Here are the latest designs that were shown to visitors. Let us [...]
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How much historical data do you need to keep?

By Brian.Harris | Published: November 9, 2009
A bit like Dr Who, SQL Response 2 will allow you to “rewind time” back to a specific point – for example 2 minutes ago, last Wednesday, six weeks, or even six months earlier – to see overview data for a server or SQL Server instance exactly as it was at that point in time. [...]
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Design a Dashboard Prize Draw update

By Adam | Published: November 2, 2009
In September we announced our Design a Dashboard Prize Draw, where we wanted you to send us your idea of a perfect monitoring dashboard. Well, we’ve had six fantastic entries so far and we’re about to enter them into the draw, but since two of our team are currently at SQL PASS, we thought we’d [...]
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