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How the Pandemic Impacted the Government's Cloud Migration Plans

Aug 30, 2021 By Brandon Shopp In SolarWinds
“Cloud-first” has been a government imperative for many years, but the pandemic usurped this strategy, making “cloud-now” a priority. The results have been transformational. The cloud made wide-scale government telework possible, but it’s also given agencies the opportunity to test drive new cloud applications and experience the scalability and security benefits first-hand.
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Indexes Matter-How Poor Index Management Can Ruin Query Performance

Aug 26, 2021 By Frank Solomon In SolarWinds
Ideally, database queries use the fewest possible resources: time, memory, bandwidth, etc. Lower resource consumption maps to better query performance. To find relevant data in a table, a database query relies on lookup operations, and a table index can help a query efficiently find the table values it needs. With an efficient, well-designed table index, a database query can find the table data it needs, avoiding the need to "scan"—or search through—all the table data.
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What Is End-User Monitoring and Why It's Critical for Your Business

Aug 26, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
End-user experience monitoring is a practice designed to track user behavior or actions while interacting with a website or web application. The data gathered by end-user experience monitoring helps measure the impact of website and device performance on the end user’s journey. A meaningful end-user experience can help improve the enterprise’s operational efficiency, troubleshooting processes, employee productivity, and overall business value.
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Welcoming Scope Creep | An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session 2

Aug 25, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Now that your Network Management System is up and running, where do you go from here? “Scope creep” doesn’t (necessarily) have to be a bad phrase. Extending your monitoring out beyond the initial intention isn’t just encouraged, it’s commendable. Having all your business-critical information in one place speeds up troubleshooting and allows you to get in front of issues before they turn into problems.
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How to Discover Devices and Connections With Engineer's Toolset

Aug 24, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Learn how you can easily discover MAC addresses within your local network and match them to IP addresses with the MAC Address Discovery tool from SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps you monitor and troubleshoot your network with the most trusted tools in network management. Version 11.0 now comes with an intuitive web console for 5 of the most popular tools - Response Time Monitor, Interface Monitor, CPU Monitor, Memory Monitor, and TraceRoute.
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Basic SQL Server Query Tuning Secrets Every SQL Admin Should Know

Aug 24, 2021 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds
The performance of your applications is a complex, multi-layered puzzle. Performance can be negatively impacted at the application layer or even by remote calls to networked services. However, the most common bottleneck for applications is the data storage layer. The most common data storage tier for applications is a relational database, whose performance can vary widely depending on query optimization.
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Making Your Service Desk the GOAT

Aug 24, 2021 By Liz Beavers In SolarWinds
Imagine every time you visited the service desk to submit a ticket, you were greeted by the boisterous drums from the medley of the Olympics—you’d feel like a gold medalist! Though a theme song may seem far-fetched, rolling out white glove treatment can elevate the service desk in the eyes of your users. Let’s explore how you can land a 10 out of 10 in service delivery by embracing more user-centric service management strategies.
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The Syslog Staying Power

Aug 24, 2021 By Papertrail Team In SolarWinds
Some classics never go out of style, like a good pair of boat shoes or cowboy boots, depending on where you live. In the logging world, syslog is this classic. For more than 30 years, the syslog protocol has been a standard for logging. When we talk to users about what type of logs they collect and how they send them to SolarWinds ® Papertrail ™ , syslog always comes up. “Our application logs and server system logs are sent to Papertrail.
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How to Use Intelligent Query Processing to Boost Query Outcomes

Aug 19, 2021 By Meagan Longoria In SolarWinds
Experienced SQL Server database administrators and developers spend years learning best practices within SQL Server and how to identify performance pitfalls in the query optimizer. Starting with SQL Server 2017, Microsoft introduced a family of features called “Intelligent Query Processing” to provide more consistent performance for your queries.
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