Monthly Archives: March 2010

Down Tools Week – Day 1

By Adam | Published: March 29, 2010
In January, Neil Davidson, joint CEO of Red Gate Software, announced ‘Down Tools Week‘, an experiment the company would take part in. “For four days, starting on March 29th, we’d like everybody involved in building products (both for our customers and internal development) to down tools and work on something different. You can work by [...]
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The Acid Test

By Adam | Published: March 19, 2010
We had the pleasure of being visited by a real, live, actual working DBA this week. We won’t name him here, for he has a good reputation, and hanging out with the likes of the Future of Monitoring team could cause irreparable damage. We spent a couple of days showing him protoypes of SQL Response [...]
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New Alerts Pt 1 (of 3)

By Ben.Rees | Published: March 9, 2010
I’ve spent the last few weeks investigating the alerts that the new v2 product will offer, in particular the new alerts that are not currently available in v1. SQL Response v2 will provide a number of Overviews for SQL Server Instances summarising activity on those servers. For example, a number of Perfmon counters (Buffer Cache [...]
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