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• SCOM, 90 days in, III. Stuff to Add

  This is the third installment of a series on our deployment of System Center at my workplace, emphasis on SQL Server MP. At this point we’ve got Operations Manager installed, and up and running, and we’ve been able to categorize all the monitored servers Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:57 PM by merrillaldrich | 2 Comments Filed under: performance, diagnostics, monitoring, SCOM

• SQLSat65, Great Perf Counters Poster from Quest

  I was fortunate to be able to attend the Vancouver BC SQLSaturday this past weekend, and it was excellent! Great sessions, good facility, well attended. Nice work, and a huge thank you to the volunteers that made that happen. One side perk: I got a copy Read More... Posted Monday, February 28, 2011 9:50 AM by merrillaldrich | 0 Comments Filed under: performance, diagnostics, monitoring

• SCOM, 90 Days In, I

  At my office we’re about 90 days into our implementation of System Center Operations Manager for Windows Server and SQL Server monitoring. All in all it’s been a good experience, and I’m really excited to have access to this tool. I’ve logged a fair number Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:11 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: performance, diagnostics, monitoring, SCOM

• Using Historical Perf Counter Data For Storage Planning

  Lately I'm faced with a fairly ambitious data center move, and at the same time with an initiative to consolidate sprawling SQL Servers onto centralized clusters. It's a chunk of work, but these two notions have fit together pretty well: as long as we're Read More... Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 5:42 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: san, performance, diagnostics, monitoring

• Red Gate monitoring team would like your suggestions

  Via Brad McGehee I read that a small team from Red Gate is designing a new version of their SQL Monitoring tool, and they are trying to do the right thing by gathering the insight and preferences of real DBAs. I've personally used three of the other top Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:02 PM by merrillaldrich | 2 Comments Filed under: diagnostics, monitoring