I am trying to monitor a remote server, and log to SQL server. When I go to start the log I get this: The (name of my log) log or alert has not started. Refresh the log or alert list to view current ...

I was just wondering if anyone was dumping performance monitoring data to SQL Server tables?<BR><BR>Any tips, advice, thoughts in general on this?<BR><BR><BR>Lessons hard learned, ...

What happens on the typical load-testing project? For me, the projects tend to fall into one of two buckets. Bucket No. 1: We've got a problem. Bucket No. 2: We've got a performance penalty clause in ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...

Hi everyone! It's great to be back on Database Trends and Applications magazine. While I dropped out of the regular columnist position for quite a while, I was still hard at it promoting strong ...