Database Monitoring and Management

Obsolete Indexes - dbWatch to the rescue

If you are a database developer or a database-savvy software engineer, you have probably heard a thing or two about indexes – indexes are usually used to find values matching a given query quickly, but the downside of them is that they require space, so essentially you trade-off space for speed. 

With that being said, not all database indexes are very useful – if your indexes are obsolete, they would most likely do more harm than good. 

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Inside of the Activity of SQL Server: Are You Monitoring It Right?

If you have found yourself working with SQL Server or SQL Server Express for quite a while, you might have already noticed just how important the monitoring of such database instances can be. While there might be a dozen of database monitoring and management tools available for you to use (you may be using a SQL Server management studio or similar tools already), however, if you have tried one or a few of them, you might have noticed that only a couple of them are up to the task since monitoring also needs to be done in the right way. 

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How is The Memory of Your SQL Server Doing?

If you are a database administrator, especially if you find yourself being a Microsoft SQL Server DBA, you probably find yourself needing to take care of a lot of things: these things might include the availability, security, capacity, or performance of your database instances, but there might be a couple of smaller things you would need to take care of: one of these things would include keeping an eye out on the memory of your SQL Server instances. 

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