How To Find a Quicker Path Through the Alert/Alarm Jungle

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How to Find a Quicker Path Through the
Alert/Alarm Jungle

• SQL Server DBA Professionals

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Feeling outnumbered?

• In environments that see the SQL DBA outnumbered
  five to ten times by servers, efficient
  monitoring and troubleshooting are more important
  than ever. 

This feeling is compounded for those among us who
are accidental DBAs.
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Feeling lost?

• How do you make SQL Server management more
  efficient when most days feel like youre lost in
  a jungle, with alerts and alarms clamoring for
  your attention from all corners of the
  environment?

The right SQL tools are your guide through the
jungle.
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You cant boil the ocean

• The fact is, the boil the ocean approach to SQL
  Server troubleshooting and diagnostics just isnt
  feasible.

As a SQL DBA, you simply cannot afford to be
bombarded with 50 potential problems and be able
to effectively prioritize them and focus on the
most critical ones.
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Prioritize first

• Drilling down into details is something you can
  do with a lot more confidence if your SQL tools
  have helped you prioritize first.

Youll be more assured of not chasing a dead end
(or an issue that should be resolved later) and
know youre working on the highest priority stuff
first.
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A map through the jungle

• Your SQL Server monitoring and diagnostic tool
  should give you an extremely simple and intuitive
  view of what the priority issues are, with rapid
  drill-down into critical details.

What you currently have to do

• Discover which instance needs attention first

• See the performance history of a SQL Server
  instance, system waits and I/O latency

• Get comprehensive information on query performance

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Theres a better way

• If your SQL Server jungle spans a wide area and
  your alerts and alarms are numerous, theres a
  better way

Monitoring systems available now can deliver
quick, readily digestible graphical views of your
environment, its health, and performance such
as innovative heat map representations that
can cut your investigative time from hours to
seconds.
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Theres a better way

• Now users of SQL Server Management Studio can
  monitor all their connections via a heatmap,
  alarms list, and realtime diagnostics for FREE.

Once installed and configured, users can monitor
their connections immediately.
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Theres a better way

• The powerful monitoring features communicate
  important information regarding the status of
  connections. Severity is color coded so its easy
  to see at a glance what needs your attention.

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