Database

Brainiac Corner with Ryn Daniels

09/15/15 Ryn Daniels is an operations engineer at Etsy who got her start in programming with TI-80 calculators back when Geocities was still cool, and these days has opinions on th…

Integrating SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor with PagerDuty

08/31/15 It’s easy to integrate SoalrWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) with your existing workflow and team tools. Included on our growing list of integrations is PagerDuty…

A Database Upgrade Story: Cassandra 2.0

08/19/15 Today’s guest post is brought to you by Mikhail Panchenko from the Opsmatic team. Thank you for sharing, and we hope others find it helpful! A Real Life Database Upgrade S…

The Fine Data of Fine Art

08/19/15 Here at SolarWinds, it’s clear to us that proper database monitoring is “an art.” Beyond simple, raw power, navigating and understanding a database takes finesse, insight,…

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 …