Database

Going Beyond Fixes: DBAs Become Business Leaders

12/15/23 Picture this: you step into your dream DBA job, and everything’s running like a well-oiled machine. Your monitoring tools show you any hiccups before they become full-blow…

Database Observability Provides the Features Customers Need for Effective Monitoring

12/13/23 I began working with database customers back in the day with VividCortex until it was purchased by SolarWinds. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to work with tons of ou…

Compound Alerts Within Database Observability Drive Actionable Alerting

11/29/23 The latest edition to the SolarWinds® Observability Platform, Database Observability, is live! Previously, you’ve relied on Database Manager to help monitor your database …

The Present and Future of Data Management Roles

11/07/23 In January 2015, I wrote about the future of professional database administrators (DBAs) in a three-part series of articles for Database Trends & Applications magazine. Ba…

The Future of Database Monitoring – AIOps

10/17/23 IT pros need tools designed to ingest large volumes of data, correlate events across data sources, detect problems, and resolve them with new technologies to support more …

SQL Sentry Then and Now Part 2

10/12/23 In my first post, I talked about how SQL Sentry has taken shape over the years. Now we announced SQL Sentry 2023.3, and a lot is changing. In the past, customers could onl…

SQL Sentry Then and Now

09/18/23 With the release of SQL Sentry 2023.3, I look back at the past 18 years I have worked with the product to admire where it is today versus then. It’s been an incredible exp…

The Future of SQL Sentry

09/15/23 This month, I celebrate 11 years of working on SQL Sentry. I started as employee number 15 at SentryOne and then moved through various roles in support, customer success, …

SolarWinds Partners with Data Platform Women in Tech to Bring Women Experts to Database Events

05/01/23 I’ve spent much of my career in the data platform as the only woman in the room. I’ve built software, written books, framed service offerings, and spoken at conferences, a…

What You Don’t Know About Azure Synapse

02/07/23 There are so many interesting and very useful Azure services out there. Over my time in the IT industry, I have seen the evolution of virtualization and eventually the clo…

Selecting the Best Azure VM Type for Your Workload

01/31/23 Organizations all over the world have been moving workloads to the cloud. Microsoft Azure provides a host of benefits and services which make it a top choice for on-premis…

How to Assess Current Workloads for a Cloud Migration

01/19/23 Organizations large and small are taking advantage of cloud computing. This can be as simple as leveraging Office 365 or migrating all of their business applications from …