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Win a trip into space

By Adam | Published: October 13, 2011
Red Gate Software has teamed up with Space Adventures to offer one lucky DBA a ticket into space. Complete our video quiz, and you could be the winner. Aside from the grand prize, there’s a discount on Red Gate tools available for anyone who enters, rewards for the finalists, and a free eBook for everyone [...]
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SQL in the City – London

By Adam | Published: July 14, 2011
On July 15th is Red Gate’s SQL in the City, ‘an awesome day of SQL Server training the Red Gate way.’ That is, served with a healthy dose of hot sauce and washed down with Ingeniously Pale Ale. There are presentations by Grant Fritchey, Brad McGehee, Steve Jones, Buck Woody, Mladen Prajdić, Jonathan Allen, Neil [...]
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SQL Bits 8

By Adam | Published: April 6, 2011
Some of our team are heading over to SQL Bits in Brighton, so please come to the Red Gate stand to talk to us about all things SQL Monitoring! We’re interested to discuss what you need from a monitoring tool and you can give us your feedback on SQL Monitor 2.2. There’ll also be prize [...]
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Best practices clinic

By Adam | Published: March 11, 2011
If you were the DBA for the SQLServerCentral.com and Simple-talk.com databases, what changes would you make? There is an interesting experiment happening over at SQLServerCentral.com. The databases for SSC and Simple-talk.com can be monitored by anyone (SQL Monitor was installed and the interface made public at monitor.red-gate.com). So you’re invited to take a look at [...]
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Incident on SSC

By Simon | Published: February 28, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I came into work as per usual, sat down at my desk, and after logging on to my workstation noticed an odd conversation occurring on Twitter. Two people I follow, Paul White (@SQL_Kiwi) and Dave Dustin (@venzann), were discussing Red Gate’s publically available installation of SQL Monitor in relation to a [...]
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Maintenance windows and SSRS reports

By Adam | Published: February 18, 2011
The latest SQL Monitor 2.2 release has a new feature called Maintenance windows. This allows you to define a period when you wish to temporarily stop SQL Monitor from raising alerts and apply this to all or some machines. In the example above, our cheeringly named death machine is set to suspend alerting for one [...]
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Far away from your desk

By Adam | Published: January 18, 2011
I’m sure at some time we have all had aspirations to do our SQL Monitoring from the comfort of… well, horseback (although my ‘ranch’ is more of a backyard really, not much room to swing a cat let alone swing, or ride, a horse) Or, we’ve wished we could escape the office and keep an [...]
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iPad + SQL Monitor winners

By Adam | Published: December 20, 2010
Congratulations to the winners of the 30 iPads with SQL Monitor that Brent Ozar, Grant Fritchey and Steve Jones decided and announced today. We hope you have a better life/work balance as a result and that you’ll “relax and get out more… stop worrying about what your server’s doing, and start being present with your [...]
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Happy SQL Monitor to all

By Adam | Published: December 17, 2010
The competition to win an iPad with SQL Monitor ends today, with Brent Ozar, Grant Fritchey and Steve Jones due to announce 10 winners each on Monday 20th December. We have no idea who they’ll choose as the winners, but we’ve enjoyed reading all the entries, and one in particular brought a big smile to [...]
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iPad and SQL Monitor – free to good home

By Adam | Published: December 13, 2010
This is SQL Monitor in a nutshell: It’s Friday night and you’ve left the office. You’re at home with a beer and the TV on and you no longer care about the servers at work, right? Wrong. You do care. You’re responsible for the servers 25 hours a day, 8 days a week. But you’re [...]
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