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You Can Only Fix What You Measure (So Measure What You Want to Fix)

Aug 13, 2021 By Leon Adato In SolarWinds
Recently, my colleagues Pete Di Stefano, Ashley Adams, and I hosted a webcast on the topic of capacity planning and optimization. You can listen/watch it here, it was a really fun conversation. As part of the discussion, we talked about the need to measure the right things to get the correct outcome. Keep in mind my oft-repeated mantra: monitoring is simply the collection of data. You need a robust, mature tool to add context, which transforms those metrics into information.
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Visibility Into Distributed Availability Groups With SQL Sentry

Aug 12, 2021 By Roan Urquhart In SolarWinds
I began my career as an associate software development engineer in June of 2020, and during my short time in the industry, I’ve had the opportunity to build and troubleshoot continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines, work on many different technologies within several SolarWinds®, formerly SentryOne, products, and learn proper engineering practices.
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The Service Desk and Parenthood's Shared Classroom

Aug 11, 2021 By Liz Beavers In SolarWinds
This past April, my husband and I took on our most exciting and daunting chapter yet: parenthood. Despite the chaos around us, we made the most of our pregnancy and thoroughly enjoyed sifting through baby clothes, putting together his nursery, choosing a name...the works. When it came time to bring our little guy home, I thought we had relatively grounded expectations for what our lives would look like as a family of three.
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IT Asset Management With Discovery Agents

Aug 10, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Managing IT assets can be a challenge if you don’t have a powerful tool to accurately track your IP-connected devices. Whether it’s ensuring all your employees are using the latest operating system software version or quickly attaching a related item to a ticket, with SolarWinds Service Desk, you can keep track of your inventory and budget and ultimately mitigate risk when staying on top of your assets. This short video shows you how to install and use the Solarwinds Discovery Agent and Discovery Scanner.
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Exploring Your Data Universe

Aug 10, 2021 By John Morehouse In SolarWinds
You can learn a lot about an organization by looking at their data. For example, if I see “LoanToValue” (LTV) or “CollateralValue,” I could surmise they deal with financial data—specifically loans—in some fashion. Developers and database administrators with domain knowledge about the intrinsic meaning of the data are precious friends. These individuals understand the meaning behind the data and how it works within the applications of the organization.
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What's Your IT Pro Journey?

Aug 9, 2021 By Kevin Kline In SolarWinds
Last week, my friend and colleague Leon Adato ( t| b) introduced 2021’s IT Pro Day theme “Bring IT On” and observed an IT pros’ life experiences helped to form the foundation of their skillsets and careers, ultimately preparing them for any challenge thrown their way. Whether it’s a pandemic, natural disaster, or a configuration error that takes down a mission critical server—we know IT pros have it in hand.
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Generating DDL Statements to Recreate Single Objects

Aug 5, 2021 By Monica Rathbun In SolarWinds
Every database administrator (DBA) is—first and foremost—human. And everyone makes mistakes. It’s not the absence of mistakes but rather how you prepare for those mistakes that makes you a great DBA. Luckily, there are many ways to prepare for those mishaps, whether the errors are made by you or someone else on your team. One commonly made mistake is to drop an object in a database or accidentally delete data.
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Extend Your APM Capabilities With End-User Data

Aug 5, 2021 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
In the internet-driven economy, businesses rely on applications for different functions in the customer, partner, and employee spheres. Over the years, such applications have become more functional, faster, and user-friendly. However, end users still encounter slow loading pages, transaction failures, and esoteric error messages. These errors cause inconvenience to the users and lead to significant financial and reputational losses.
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A DBA's Perspective: What Is DevOps?

Aug 4, 2021 By Monica Rathbun In SolarWinds
If you’ve worked in IT in recent years, you’re no doubt familiar with the term “DevOps.” Accelerating the pace of development and faster delivery of new features is the goal. DevOps involves integrating the development life cycle with Agile methodology. DevOps practices applied to database operations is now commonly referred to as DataOps.
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