BCS Monitoring Suite
At BCS we use World Class Open Source monitoring software to monitor everything from perfmon data of your SQL Servers (our specialty), […]
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How to Effectively Monitor SQL Servers – a Modern Solution that’s Priced Right
A favorite tool for us to effectively monitor our SQL Server environments and beyond is Icinga. Icinga is an open-source monitoring system […]
Querying SQL Server Chapter 1 – If you absorb nothing else – Focus on This One!
Querying Microsoft SQL Server Chapter 1 Key Take-Aways – Chapter 1: Foundations of Querying. T-SQL is the main language used to manage […]
You Wanna Go Pro? Get Certified!
If you want to be a DBA for a living, Get Certified! Or at least try to, so you sound intelligent in […]
Upgrading SQL Server in a Heavy OLTP Environment
In the trenches, how we upgraded the most important SQL Server for our publicly traded client, in a Production environment where 24x7x365 […]