As you might imagine, I rely on Idera’s Diagnostic Manager quite a bit. Diagnostic Manager monitors many different things within each SQL Instance will alert to them when they met the thresholds you configure. Now if you only a few SQL Instances monit…

Where I work, we like to buy Diagnostic Manager Licenses in batches. So every quarter or so I add in a bunch of new instances. When you start getting over 25 instances being monitored, it gets tricky to remember which 5 instances you just added into t…

A great use of Idera’s Diagnostic Manager is to manage your SQL Job’s and knowing which jobs have failed, which ones are running long and which ones have been running for the last 10 hours. You even get to adjust the thresholds for each all of those me…

One of the great things about Diagnostic Manager is the ability to create custom alerts. This is something I believe needs a bit more work, but even in its current state, it is really useful.

Prior to being a full-fledged DBA, I was a SQL Developer for a Warehouse Management System called HighJump.  HighJump is a very fast paced system with system owners who partner very closely with IT.  This also means, that I was working closely with peop…

Do you have a group of developers who as soon as their application has any issues they call you because it must be the database server?  Do you have managers who really want to know if all the jobs are running successfully?  Yeah, me too.
That’s one of…