SQL Monitoring

SQL Server monitoring with nagios: utilisation

We saw in my last blog how to install the SQL Server plugin for Nagios. In this new blog, I will explain: how to create a wrapper to avoid the unset of the PERLLIB variable how to create and(…)

SQL Server monitoring with nagios: installation

Nagios is an IT Infrastructure monitoring solution which is able to monitor SQL Server instances with a specific plugin. I have installed this plugin to test those functionalities and I will explain here how to do it. Prerequisites installation(…)

Oracle Parallel Query: Did you use MapReduce for years without knowing it?

By Franck Pachot . I’ve read this morning that MapReduce is dead. The first time I heard about MapReduce was when a software architect proposed to stop writing SQL on Oracle Database and replace it with MapReduce processing.

Oracle SQL Monitoring reports in flash, html, text

By Franck Pachot . I have recently posted on the way I like to extract execution plans. When we have Tuning pack, I suggest to get them with SQL Real-Time Monitoring as an active report. However, Martin Preiss said(…)

Best practice for the sending of an Oracle execution plan

By Franck Pachot . You have a query that takes too long and you want help to analyze the execution plan? Then you need to get it with relevant information, and correctly formatted. Autotrace is not a good option(…)