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 configure a configuration file by monitoring instance how to create an SQL Login for nagios How to subscribe to an alert…
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 FreeTDS installation FreeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft…
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. Because the project had to deal with a huge amount of data in a small time and they had enough budget to…
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 in a comment that he prefers the text format – easier to search, copy, and paste. And that’s a very good…
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 as it does not bind the variables in the same way as your application. Explain plan only shows estimations, but if…
