Problem If you been reading this series you are used to looking at Windows and SQL Server but who knows what InfluxDB is and what to look at there especially if installed it on Linux. Lucky for us there is a dashboard to use to watch InfluxDB as well so
Problem As good DBAs, we sometimes have the need to monitor stats or just want to be nice to our system admins and share our new shiny toys and watch Windows using the same tools as SQL Server. Install and Configure Telegraf for on Windows The solution for this is fairly simple
This T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Jens Vestergaard (b | t), and we are asked to share our favorite SQL Server tools. Hint Profiler will not be on the list. But where do you start there are so many tools out there. In alphabetical order here are my top
Problem For good database design, it is not idea to have everything in your PRIMARY filegroup so you can do partial backups, piecemeal restores, and for performance to separate your tables and indexes. You need different filegroups when looking at separating your indexes and tables and partitioning. Creating all these
I had two SQL Saturdays this month SQLSaturday Chicago and SQLSaturday Rochester both of which were very cold. Hopefully, the winter SQLSaturdays are over, for now, I want it to be spring and see no more snow for awhile. I know I’m a baby, but I’m used to North Carolina