If you missed the recent webcast on SQL performance tuning presented by Janis Griffin, you are definitely going to want to watch it on-demand. She packed so much information into 60 minutes, it’s a wonder there weren’t thousands of heads exploding across WebEx – and every nugget of advice was pure gold. Let’s start with Janis’ 30+ year career as a DBA across multiple platforms, especially Oracle and SQL Server. She knows her stuff and knows how to talk about it.

We were recently asked if Foglight can be used to monitor Google Cloud SQL instances, specifically MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server. To clarify, these are the PaaS (or DBaaS) offerings from Google. Within Google Cloud Platform, you can use Compute Engine virtual machines and monitor the databases and OS's on those like you normally would with Foglight. The answer from our testing is that it "more-or-less" works.. This is not an official support endorsement however. That remains TBD.