February 2011 - Posts

• SQLSat65, Great Perf Counters Poster from Quest

  I was fortunate to be able to attend the Vancouver BC SQLSaturday this past weekend, and it was excellent! Great sessions, good facility, well attended. Nice work, and a huge thank you to the volunteers that made that happen. One side perk: I got a copy Read More... Posted Monday, February 28, 2011 9:50 AM by merrillaldrich | 0 Comments Filed under: diagnostics, monitoring, performance

• SCOM, 90 Days In, II. Noise.

  Once you get past the basic architecture of a SCOM implementation, and build the servers, and so on, the first real problem is … well, noise. Suddenly (depending on how you deploy) the system will reach out, like marching army ants or some very clever Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:43 PM by merrillaldrich | 0 Comments Filed under: monitoring, SCOM

• SCOM, 90 Days In, I

  At my office we’re about 90 days into our implementation of System Center Operations Manager for Windows Server and SQL Server monitoring. All in all it’s been a good experience, and I’m really excited to have access to this tool. I’ve logged a fair number Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:11 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: diagnostics, monitoring, performance, SCOM

• Other SCOM users at SQLSaturday #65 Vancouver?

  After a little hair-graying fun around passport renewal and family logistics, it looks like I'll be at the Vancouver SQLSaturday ! I am pumped. (I was entirely convinced they would call it "SQLSaturd' eh?" and I'm frankly a little disappointed about the Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:32 PM by merrillaldrich | 0 Comments Filed under: community events