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IT Pros to the World: Bring IT On

Sep 1, 2021 By Sascha Giese In SolarWinds
That’s what they say. Bring it on. I’m ready for this. I’m prepared. But no one could prep for what happened and how things evolved, right? So is preparation not necessary after all? I’ve had numerous discussions with my colleague and fellow Head Geek Leon Adato about this topic, and we even created a video with the background theme of preparation vs. instant action. Leon is kind of a doctoral student in chaos theory—or so it seems—while I try to plan things out.
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How to Do Simple UX Monitoring With ipMonitor

Aug 31, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Learn how you can leverage ipMonitor user experience monitors to be sure you know about any user experience issues before end users do. Do you know what’s going on right now with all the network devices, servers, and applications that are the magic behind your business? To keep on top of what’s happening with all of those moving parts, you need an easy-to-use, reliable monitoring solution that tells you what’s up, what’s down, and what’s not performing as expected.
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Indexing Strategies for SQL Server Performance

Aug 31, 2021 By Paul S. Randal In SolarWinds
One of the easiest ways to increase query performance in SQL Server is to make sure it can quickly access the requested data as efficiently as possible. In SQL Server, using one or more indexes can be exactly the fix you need. In fact, indexes are so important, SQL Server can warn you when it figures out there’s an index missing that would benefit a query.
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How the Pandemic Impacted the Government's Cloud Migration Plans

Aug 30, 2021 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
“Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformational. The cloud made wide-scale government telework possible, but it’s also given agencies the opportunity to test drive new cloud applications and experience the scalability and security benefits first-hand.
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Indexes Matter-How Poor Index Management Can Ruin Query Performance

Aug 26, 2021 By Frank Solomon In SolarWinds
Ideally, database queries use the fewest possible resources: time, memory, bandwidth, etc. Lower resource consumption maps to better query performance. To find relevant data in a table, a database query relies on lookup operations, and a table index can help a query efficiently find the table values it needs. With an efficient, well-designed table index, a database query can find the table data it needs, avoiding the need to "scan"—or search through—all the table data.
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What Is End-User Monitoring and Why It's Critical for Your Business

Aug 26, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
End-user experience monitoring is a practice designed to track user behavior or actions while interacting with a website or web application. The data gathered by end-user experience monitoring helps measure the impact of website and device performance on the end user’s journey. A meaningful end-user experience can help improve the enterprise’s operational efficiency, troubleshooting processes, employee productivity, and overall business value.
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Welcoming Scope Creep | An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session 2

Aug 25, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Now that your Network Management System is up and running, where do you go from here? “Scope creep” doesn’t (necessarily) have to be a bad phrase. Extending your monitoring out beyond the initial intention isn’t just encouraged, it’s commendable. Having all your business-critical information in one place speeds up troubleshooting and allows you to get in front of issues before they turn into problems.
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How to Discover Devices and Connections With Engineer's Toolset

Aug 24, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Learn how you can easily discover MAC addresses within your local network and match them to IP addresses with the MAC Address Discovery tool from SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps you monitor and troubleshoot your network with the most trusted tools in network management. Version 11.0 now comes with an intuitive web console for 5 of the most popular tools - Response Time Monitor, Interface Monitor, CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor, and TraceRoute.
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Basic SQL Server Query Tuning Secrets Every SQL Admin Should Know

Aug 24, 2021 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds
The performance of your applications is a complex, multi-layered puzzle. Performance can be negatively impacted at the application layer or even by remote calls to networked services. However, the most common bottleneck for applications is the data storage layer. The most common data storage tier for applications is a relational database, whose performance can vary widely depending on query optimization.
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