Production Issue: How to diagnose issue when SQL is thread starved
We have had several recent production issues with our SQL 2008 database where so many queries stacked up that we ran out of threads and sql was unresponsive. We are having a tough time diagnosing the...
View ArticleDate format - how to change
In the process of trialling SQL Diagnostic Manager. Is there a way of changing the date format as at the moment it's mm/dd/hh:mm - would prefer it to be dd/mm/hh:mm?Thanks
View ArticleSQL DM causing excess load on Production OLTP server
Currently when I take SQLDM out of Maintenance mode the CPU utilization o the OLTP database it is monitoring goes up to between 75 and 95% and stays there for over 12 hours.We are running SQL Server...
View ArticleRestart IIS when a different server has high CPU
HiI support the database of a web application that will cause the CPU on my database server to spike. The quick resolution is to restart IIS on the web server. Does anyone know how I could get...
View Articleproduct-oriented educational blog posts for SQL Diagnostic Manager
Here is a list of product-oriented educational blog posts for SQL Diagnostic Manager:How to monitor Always On availability groupsHow to monitor tempdb databasesHow to plan future capacityHow to monitor...
View ArticleLog Backup Alert
Can you please help me how to setup an alert about no log backup for a database in full recovery ?
View ArticleA transaction in session 566 has been active for 491 minute(s) and running...
We see similar alerts often. upon checking for open transactions using dbcc opentran on the database, we don't see any open transactions. But the above alert hangs on for several minutes/hours. The...
View ArticleCan I change Multi-Metric Alert email subject?
I'm consolidating some alerts that create multiple emails, the best way I found so far is use "All metrics in this list" for a single metric. This seems to have worked except I was planning on creating...
View ArticleHigh Network Usage - Metric Reports
Network bandwidth is very high on a SQL 2012 production server (both in and out from SQL Server to Application Server). Which are the reports in SQL Diagnostics Manager help to determine the top...
View ArticleUsing DM to find unused databases?
Anyone have tricks in Diagnostic Manager to determine databases that haven't been used? There are a lot of T-SQL scripts floating around, all of which seem to not be very accurate in my experience.
View ArticleWhat server is using what template?
HiI have a couple templates in use and wanted to audit which servers were using which template. I'm sure this is right in front of my nose--but how can I tell what template a server is using?
View ArticleNeed to programatically get the Stored Procedure and DB CPU details
I need to programatically get the Stored Procedure and DB CPU details using SQL Diagnostic Manager.Any API's / queries/Stored Procedures that I can use to get the below Statistics1) DatabaseCPU2) Top...
View ArticleRegEx to exclude login probe activity
Looking for a way to configure the SQL Server Error Log alert to exclude failed logins for specific login attempts that are probed daily, similar to the following. We know they'll be coming from a...
View ArticleDatabaseFileStatistics table not getting purged
Hello,The DatabaseFileStatistics in our SQLdmRepository db is getting huge... over 67M rows... that go back to 2016 when we installed the tool.The DatabaseStatistics table is over 20M.Is there some...
View ArticleDoes Diagnostic manager search the network to find monitored SQL servers?
I have installed sql server 2016 sp1 on a server in my domain. I installed Idera SQL safe backup agent so I could later add it to SQL Safe. Does SQL backup agent automatically reach out to my...
View ArticleHow is CPU calculated for large numbers of CPU cores?
We recently upgraded our hardware and SQL server to be able to use 104 cores hyperthreaded. In traces I see both @@CPU_BUSY and sys.dm_os_ring_buffers. Which one is used for the dashboard? We...
View Articleuser rights for instance Diagnostic Manager monitors
what user rights does IDERA need on the instance, to be able to monitor an instance using DIagnostic Manager?
View ArticleConsole Navigation Slowness
Hi EveryoneBefore I hit Idera Support with an annoying ticket of "but it's slow" I thought I'd run this past everyone.My long running install of v10.0 was annoyingly slow when my team would navigate...
View ArticleCan we change the 12 hr default that the alerts appear to stay active
If I have a Agent job that completion status if 'failed' we get an alert, however if this happens over a weekend we don't see this unless we go looking as the alert clears after 12 hrs. Can this...
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Server won't reconnect post-DM migration
I just migrated DM from a 2012 server to 2016 - my monitored servers/SQL instances are a mix of 2012-2016, and they all reconnected with DM successfully except this one. I'm sure the cause is something...
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