Author Archives: Priya.Sinha

Down Tools Week

By Priya.Sinha | Published: February 5, 2010
A few months ago, Red Gate sent a team of four people (2 developers, 1 tester, 1 designer and 0 project manager) away from our Cambridge office to a large house near the Suffolk coast for a week. The objective of this “Coding by the sea” project was to keep the team away from all [...]
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Waits and Queues

By Priya.Sinha | Published: October 19, 2009
Waits are the delays caused when a process or worker thread cannot immediately access the resources it requires. Waits can be caused by either excessive activity or inadequate resources. Queues store incoming requests for resources that cannot be immediately satisfied. Waits and queues can help to identify the resources which are under pressure. But, I’m [...]
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Mirroring: What do you want to monitor?

By Priya.Sinha | Published: September 21, 2009
There are many technologies available at the software and hardware level to help achieve high availability on mission-critical servers. We’d like your views on what you’d expect a monitoring tool to tell you about for all these various issues. To kick things off, we’d first like your requirements for monitoring mirrored environments. When would you [...]
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