Ok, so my current company has no real monitoring, at all (yes, I know). It hurts. We are, thankfully getting SCOM 2012 soon, so general OS monitoring will be taken care of for perfmon type counters ...

Historically, database auditing and database performance have been like oil and water; they don’t mix. So auditing is often eliminated, because performance drag on critical systems is unacceptable. In ...

Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...

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