02/13/2018
by Marlon Ribunal
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Database maintenance does not have to be expensive. There are free tools out there that will make your life easier. Of course, commercial DBA tools are worth their price – they are paid for a reason. Software like SolarWinds Database Performance … Continue reading
02/06/2018
by Marlon Ribunal
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Waiting tasks quickly shows you where to look for the bottlenecks. This is only one of the many times that I didn’t have to go beyond identifying the waiting tasks to quickly troubleshoot a production performance issue. I have encountered a … Continue reading
01/30/2018
by Marlon Ribunal
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Performance tuning is one of those things that is hard to get right when you do not have an established methodology of how to approach the problem. Consider this scenario. The application users are complaining about their app being so … Continue reading