If you are a developer that finds himself frequently using MySQL for database administration, you probably already know a thing or two about it. You might know what CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) queries are, and you might know a thing or two about MySQL or MariaDB storage engines, database design, the kinds of indexes MySQL and MariaDB offers, also partitions. If you have ever dug deeper into MySQL or MariaDB, you might have also noticed that it has a limit of connections that it permits. 

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Topics: database dashboard, database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager, database farm, farmmanagement

If you have ever developed something, whether an application or a website, you probably know how critical uptime is. Uptime is not talked about since it’s frequently found to be imperative for most companies to complete their daily operations. Once our services are down, we are doing everything we can to make them available again because the longer they are down, the more issues will be caused. 

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Topics: database dashboard, database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager, database farm, farmmanagement

If you find yourself frequently working with any applications, you already know how important security is: if you are a web developer, the security of your website is obviously one of the most important topics related to it, if you are a database administrator dealing with any kinds of database instances (be it MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, Oracle, MongoDB or any other databases), security should be on the table as well. 

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Topics: database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager

Monitoring the status of database instances is the daily task of every database administrator or even a developer. Database monitoring these days can be incredibly complex and time-consuming if performed manually: thankfully, there are tools like dbWatch that can help you in time of need. If you are a user of dbWatch, you have noticed that it has a thing called “job statuses”: this blog post should provide some insight into it. 

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Topics: database dashboard, database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager, database farm, farmmanagement

If you are a frequent reader of the dbWatch blog, you might have noticed that this blog has discussed SQL instance management and database farm management in the past. The previous blog on SQL instance management versus database farm management discussed the core differences between managing SQL instances and database farms – look at this blog post as an extension of it. 

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Topics: database dashboard, database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager, database farm, farmmanagement

If you are a database administrator, you already know how important database design, indexes, partitions, and other things are. However, what is equally important are the character sets and collations that are in use on your database instances. In this blog post we will tell you what you need to know to monitor collations in SQL Server with dbWatch. 

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Topics: database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager

 

If you are a developer or a database administrator, you already know how important it is to keep an eye on your hard drives. 

 

By keeping an eye on the drives associated with your database instance, you can constantly monitor their capacity – if you use scalable hosting providers, it is not unheard of that they allow you to add or remove disk drives as desired. To do so though, you first need to make sure what problems your hard drives are facing – what is their capacity? What amount of space do they use on the disk? How much space does each database instance consume? etc. 

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Topics: database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager

If you are a MySQL DBA or a developer that deals with MySQL daily, you have probably noticed some anti-patterns of MySQL engines. This blog will walk you through some of the anti-patterns related to MySQL storage engines and tell you how dbWatch will be able to overcome the issues they pose to your database instances. 

 

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Topics: database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager

If you're a regular reader of the dbWatch blog, you have probably noticed that it teaches you how to do a bunch of different things ranging from monitoring your SQL server error logs to restoring your databases with the dbWatch Control Center at the helm. What the dbWatch blog hasn't covered much, though it includes monitoring your disk space used by your database instances and the relevant memory usage implications. 

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Topics: database operations, sql server monitoring, sql monitoring tools, database monitoring, sqlmonitor, sqlperformance, sqlmanager