Comments on: SQL Server Management Through Monitoring

By: SQL Server Links and news this week

SQL Server Links and news this week — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:11:46 +0000

[…] SQL Server Management Through Monitoring – Another great post from Thom Larock, this time discussing how you manage your SQL Server environment. Thom has an abundance of great advice for SQL Server DBA’s, both on his blog and in the awesome title he authored, DBA Survivor. […]

By: cold_ronald in Cleveland

cold_ronald in Cleveland — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:51:06 +0000

To continue your mechanic analogy, not having a blog or twitter account does not make one a loser (see: time mgmt).

Never having used an engine hoist and disconnecting motor mounts makes one a loser 😉

By: WIDBA

WIDBA — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:56:57 +0000

I laughed when I saw this:
“Or have you turned that corner, and are now able to be more proactive when administering and managing your enterprise?”. That statement is starting to be used around here, “we have turned the corner”. Using good monitoring tools and powershell have made the dream of being proactive a reality. Finding and solving problems before they are user problems really separates the “men from the boys” so to speak.

By: Thomas LaRock

Thomas LaRock — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:04:20 +0000

In reply to John Sansom. John, Abosolutely! I wrote about this in DBA Survivor, that you need to understand the alerts and decide if they have value or not. If they don't then you need to turn them off. I only want to be alerted to something if I need to take action. Otherwise it is just informational and i can read the information later.

By: John Sansom

John Sansom — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:42:01 +0000

Excellent post Tom.

A problem scenario that I seem to be coming up against a lot recently is monitoring overload.

This is where you have multiple monitoring systems that are monitoring the same stuff, for example CPU usage. A more severe form of this and one of my pet peeves is what I like to call “alerting overload”.

It can get to a point where the volume of alerting traffic actuality hinders your monitoring efforts.

Do others see this or know what I’m talking about?

By: Abi Chapagai

Abi Chapagai — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:37:13 +0000

Very good Post Tom. It is always good to be proactive everyday.

Thank you for this great post!!!

By: Thomas LaRock

Thomas LaRock — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:47:00 +0000

In reply to Ryan Adams. I agree...there is no excuse to not be using IgniteFree!