How do you make SQL Server management more efficient when most days feel like you’re lost in a jungle, with alerts and alarms clamoring for your attention from all corners of the environment? The right SQL tools are your guide through the jungle. The fact is, the “boil the ocean” approach to SQL Server troubleshooting and diagnostics just isn’t feasible. As a SQL DBA, you simply cannot afford to be bombarded with 50 potential problems and be able to effectively prioritize them and focus on the most critical ones.

1. How to Find a Quicker
Path Through the
Alert/Alarm Jungle
SQL Server DBA Professionals

2. Feeling outnumbered?
In environments that see the SQL DBA
outnumbered five to ten times by servers, efficient
monitoring and troubleshooting are more
important than ever.
This feeling is compounded for those among us
who are accidental DBAs.
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3. Feeling lost?
How do you make SQL Server management more
efficient when most days feel like you’re lost in a
jungle, with alerts and alarms clamoring for your
attention from all corners of the environment?
The right SQL tools are your guide through the
jungle.
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4. You can’t boil the ocean
The fact is, the “boil the ocean” approach to SQL
Server troubleshooting and diagnostics just isn’t
feasible.
As a SQL DBA, you simply cannot afford to be
bombarded with 50 potential problems and be
able to effectively prioritize them and focus on the
most critical ones.
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5. Prioritize first
Drilling down into details is something you can do
with a lot more confidence if your SQL tools have
helped you prioritize first.
You’ll be more assured of not chasing a dead end
(or an issue that should be resolved later) and
know you’re working on the highest priority stuff
first.
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6. A map through the jungle
Your SQL Server monitoring and diagnostic tool
should give you an extremely simple and intuitive
view of what the priority issues are, with rapid
drill-down into critical details.
What you currently have to do:
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Discover which instance needs attention first
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7. There’s a better way
If your SQL Server
“jungle” spans a wide
area and your alerts and
alarms are numerous,
there’s a better way:
Monitoring systems available now can deliver
quick, readily digestible graphical views of your
environment, its health, and performance – such
as innovative “heat map” representations – that
can cut your investigative time from hours to
seconds.
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8. There’s a better way
Now users of SQL Server Management Studio can
monitor all their connections via a
heatmap, alarms list, and realtime diagnostics for
FREE.
Once installed and configured, users can monitor
their connections immediately.
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9. There’s a better way
The powerful monitoring features communicate
important information regarding the status of
connections. Severity is color coded so it’s easy to
see at a glance what needs your attention.
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You also get a FREE system health Check,
performance health analysis, and comprehensive
information about your most expensive queries.
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