Database

Skip the Blame Game—Go Straight to the Data

09/22/20 You can tell the quality of a group, department, or organization not by how things go during the good times, but how they go during the challenging times. It doesn’t take …

Monitoring the Microsoft Data Platform with SQL Sentry: Introduction

09/17/20 Day in and day out, the SentryOne Professional Services team improves the lives of our customers, both new and long-time users alike, by teaching them how to leverage the …

Customizing the Orion Platform With the SolarWinds API and SWQL – SolarWinds Lab Episode #91

09/16/20 In this follow up to “Orion SDK 101: Intro to PowerShell and Orion API,” Kevin M. Sparenberg, technical content manager for Community, will continue with his deep dive int…

Schrems II: Invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework

08/18/20 Legal disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and the content in this article does not constitute legal advice. Consult your legal department to determine the steps your organizatio…

Premier Support from SentryOne

08/12/20 SentryOne technical support has been something special since inception. Most support cases are straightforward with a quick turnaround. The other 20% of support cases requ…

No, You Still Don’t Need a Blockchain

08/06/20 A couple of years ago, I wrote about why you don’t need a blockchain. Blockchain is one long transaction log that always gets written to and is never backed up. It’s a led…

Monitoring and Securing Cloud-Based Databases Is the Developer’s Responsibility

08/04/20 Modern application development requires more work to ensure the development path and the data it produces are fully in sync, secure, optimized, and error-free. This respon…

Why Investing in Open Source Is Valuable to ISVs

07/29/20 Open source is a fact of life at most organizations today. Even if you don’t directly publish open-source software, you are almost certainly using it. If you or your compa…

Strategies for Staying at the Same Company Long Term

07/28/20 On Being a Lifer If you look at my bio, you might notice I have been at SentryOne for 9 years. That is a mini lifetime in tech. I like to joke that I am the longest servin…

Agile Practices: Agility in the Unknown

07/08/20 What Does Agile Mean in Today’s World? Agility requires a certain mentality. One must constantly evaluate and adapt, and we are currently witnessing that on a global scale…

Is SQL Dead, Yet? NoSQL’s Rise in Popularity

07/01/20 Periodically, we hear proclamations that SQL is “dead.” For a long time, people have been commenting on how NoSQL stores are the inevitable grim reaper as far as RDBMS sys…

SentryOne Plan Explorer: An Origin Story

06/17/20 This year, SentryOne Plan Explorer is 10 years old. Recently, I reminisced with Greg Gonzalez (b|t) and Aaron Bertrand (b|t) about the decade-long journey of our favorite …