Monthly Archives: December 2009

SQL Clause is coming to town

By Adam | Published: December 21, 2009
“It’s Chriiiiiiiiiissst-mas!” (c) Slade 1973 Yup, holiday season is nearly upon us. Here at Red Gate HQ in Cambridge, we’ve had our Christmas lunch, we’ve had our Christmas pub quiz, we’ve even been skating at the local outdoor ice rink… and deep, deep down in the SQL Response team bunker, the solitary strand of tinsel [...]
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Snow Day

By Adam | Published: December 18, 2009
We had some very important deadlines to meet today, things that had to be finished before the team disappear on their Christmas holidays. So we came in and got our heads down and we were making great progress… and then it snowed… ‘Snow use…. we couldn’t help ourselves, so we built Reggie Red Gate, the [...]
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Working Practices

By Emma.Armstrong | Published: December 17, 2009
The SQL Response team here at Red Gate is quite a large project team compared to others in our business and we are lucky to have three testers on the project (even if the developers might not always think so!) However, having multiple people in the same role definitely changes the way that we work. [...]
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Grouping servers

By Adam | Published: December 15, 2009
We’d like to hear how you group your SQL Servers. As a monitoring and alerting application, SQL Response v2 needs to display a list of your monitored servers in a way that is most useful and makes most sense to you. Rather than a flat list, we realise that you organise your SQL Servers into [...]
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Testing SQL Response

By Emma.Armstrong | Published: December 9, 2009
At Red Gate, we only maintain a handful of SQL Servers. We are definitely not a company dependent on a large, heavily used network of SQL Servers, and therefore we’re not representative of some of the environments in which we believe (and hope) SQL Response will be deployed. We’re just one example. I am sure [...]
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Alert Notification

By Tom.Randle | Published: December 3, 2009
When SQL Response detects a problem on a server, it raises an alert. This alert contains a summary of the problem and information about the state of the system when the alert was generated. The alert will always appear in the main user interface, but you can also choose, on an alert by alert basis, [...]
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