Database

The 8 Best Ways To Lose Your DBA

08/14/15 As we all know, good DBAs are a dime a dozen. They’re easy to replace and the cost of replacing them in terms of lost productivity, downtime, recruiting, training, etc. is…

Streaming Music Services and Databases

07/29/15 The average American consumer isn’t usually interested in “buying” a big database. But thanks to the recent boom in the popularity of subscription music services like Spot…

What Is InnoDB History List Length?

07/20/15 Houston, we have a problem. Google search for “What is innodb history list length?” and you get a bunch of nonsense mixed in with correct information, and it’s hard to tel…

Introducing SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor’s New Summary Dashboard

07/16/15 I’m happy to announce that we’ve released a new default dashboard for SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM). Why a new dashboard? Simple: reduce the time-to-insig…

Why We Love CircleCI

07/15/15 We are pretty much raving fans of CircleCI and we are not ashamed to say it. Here’s why. What Does CircleCI Do For Us? It would be reasonable to describe CircleCI like thi…

How to Monitor SQL Server – Best Practices Tutorial

07/13/15 MySQL® is one of the most popular relational database management systems being used today. Its popularity with SQL admins who manage data sets puts it at the back end of m…

Probabilistic Sampling With A Sketch

07/10/15 In a previous post, I explained that we observe rich and complex streams of events, something like the following multiplied by a million: And our goal is to choose a sampl…

Selecting Representative Samples From A Stream Of Queries

07/03/15 Sampling is hard. This is the title of a talk I gave at a meetup in Boston a few weeks back. But what’s so hard about sampling anyway? To begin with, let’s clarify what I …

SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor Now Supports Heroku

06/23/15 In November, Database Performance Monitor introduced support for databases hosted on Amazon RDS. In the spirit of monitoring all of the databases on all of the platforms, …

The Strategic Importance of Database Administration

06/17/15 If you draw a diagram of information flow and interaction amongst teams and processes in IT, you’ll probably find that although some parts of the organization are “leaf” o…

Nothing Is Free, Including Buffer Space

06/08/15 Let’s talk a bit about free space in buffer, what SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is showing you, and what it means. The post Nothing Is Free, Including Buffer Space appear…

Improved User Parsing From The MySQL Protocol

06/08/15 This isn’t really a feature we should brag about, because it’s a bug that took us a while to figure out, but we believe in sharing the bad as well as the good. There’s a l…