I have been using the built-in tools of SQL Server (email and netsend) to monitor and alert me about some basic issues (like severity errors and job failures) with our SQL servers. We are now approaching a level and number of servers where I think we need to get a more global and more stable solution to monitoring and alerting.
So what third party tools are you are using to monitor your SQL Servers?
Thanks
SJ
shawn.johnson@kenexa.com
I am running SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise under Windows 2003 x64 Enterprise. My current backup strategy uses T-SQL jobs run by SQL Agent (writes out *.bak files) and then I have an Integration Services job that copies the *.bak files to our NAS device. I have performed a restore without issue. The jobs are all automated every four hours via SQL Agent. Is this a sound strategy or are there additional benefits to using 3rd party tools? If so, what are the advantages and which tool provides them?
hello,
what are some good db managements tools that are available? I installed Toad from Quest and the Red Gate's toolbelt but I haven't play with them yet. I would like to know what is the most useful tool to invest time in.
Thanks.
The only way I know of to debug a Sql 2005 stored proc is to create a VS2005 Database Project and step into it from there. Does anyone know of any third party tools that adds functionality to Sql Management Studio to step into stored procs?
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We're looking for a sql server log analysis tool. Currently we often need to identify which users execued DML in the database. But I can see other uses for a product from this tool category. I'm looking at APEXSQL Log and Lumigent Log Explorer.
Can anyone make recommendations for other tools?
Thanks,
Tom
Hi all,
I'm looking into the possibility of buying (as I doubt there's any good free options) a SQL Server Monitoring tool.
Has anyone got any particular recommendations - good or bad? I know a little about Spotlight, but not much else.
Thanks in advance.
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zinedunc
Hi,
We are evaluating proactive monitoring tools for our heterogeneous database environment, currently comprising of Sybase and MS SQL Server.
Our current options are Bradmark Surveillance, Quest Foglight/Spotlight, MOM (SQL Server only) & Embarcadero Performance Center.
Are there any recommended tools from your experience? Or any tools with with you have had bad experience?
Tia.
All, I seek your knowldege. I am looking for a monitoring tool thathas the abilility to page and email me should something go wrong withSQL server. I know of two such tools: 1.) BMC Patrol, and 2.) Quest'sFoglight. I was hoping that some of you have had some experience withother such tools. Let me know please.Louis
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to know if there are any tools that will allow
a DBA to monitor changes that occur on SQL databases
(deletion, addittion or modifications) on any objects,
and Sql security.
I have looked at Profiler in SQL and it is very limited
and plus it is huge memory hog and causes degradation on
your servers.
We've got about fifty MSSQL Servers (7.0 and 2000) in our shop.
Can anybody recommend a good tool to monitor all kind of activities and conditions on those servers?
Hi, gurus:
Please tell me some third parts monitoring tools for MS SQL server 2000.
I want to integrate my Production SQL boxes to Visual Source safe.
Can you please guide me on this also if there is any Alternative to
track the chnages in the stored Procs?
How is SQL SPOT LIGHT from Quest as a monitoring tools?.
Or
Can you please suggest me any other tools which are good for monitoring SQL Servers.
Thx
Venu
Hi,
I'm looking for tool that will help me to monitor and analyze SQL server performance including SQL activities and server activities(cpu, memory usage) as well.
I appriciate any feedback,
Thank you,
Yelena
I'm fairly new to the DBA thing.
I've been doing quite a bit of research on monitoring MSSQL performance.
What tools are you guys using?
PerfMon, Dbartisan, Spotlight, or what?
I'd like to find some free or affordable way to watch our Servers to check health/performance/etc.
is there a tool or vb.net code for monitoring who is accessing my sql 2005 express databases? username, computer name, etc.?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHave audit requirements that require that all schema changes to certain database are tracked and monitored. Any tools that can monitor these changes and log them for audit review?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe are in plan to build a Monitoring tool using PowerShell and Performance Monitor which could monitor 10 to 20 servers. Do you have any reference of any existing tool using Performance Monitor to monitor the SQL Server and available for free? I didn't want to put some effort, if something is available already.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAm customizing SQL server MGMT tools 2012 for Mass deployment.Client had asked to remove Customer Feedback option from help menu.how to disable that.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe installation SQL 2008 R2 Management Tools on a Windows 7 workstation fails with the error, The specified account already exists.
Final result: SQL Server installation failed. To continue, investigate the reason for the failure, correct the problem, uninstall SQL Server, and then rerun SQL Server Setup.
Exit code (Decimal): -2068052700
Exit facility code: 1212
Exit error code: 1316
[code]...
Login failed for user 'TOSHIBA-USERASPNET'
I know that the file persmission for the web application have to include aspnet, so i keep resetting the folder permission for aspnet in file manager, but the login failed keeps coming back every day or two
problem is after working with VS05 Pro, SQL Server Management Studio CTP, somehow the aspnet persmission get changed, use alot of sqldatasource wizards and often there is a conflict/hang between the datasource wizard and the need to have the mdf in a dettached state within VS server explorer,
not sure but the procedure to fix this seems to be to reboot, detach and re-attach the mdf in the Sql server Studio tool, re-apply the aspnet file permission on the web app folders (wonder should i be doing this in IIS instead), make sure the mdf within server explorer is detached, the it works
anyway, getting real tired of the resulting delays and design time derailment, clues greatly appreciated, thanks
sometimes i can use View in Browser when in VS05 form view and i wont get the aspnet folder permission error and other times i do.
last thing, is it a bad idea to give aspnet full permission for the entire web applicaiton??
Is there - apart from the notorious RESTORE HEADERONLY - an tool which is able to tell which SQL Server version created a specific BAK file? I'm looking for a tool that can be used w/o an available/running SQL Server installation.
Alternatively, is there any documentation about what is read with RESTORE HEADERONLY so I could write a tool myself?
Where would I find the version "bytes" in a BAK file?
Dear All,
how can we know that wether we had server tools or client tools on my machine?
Arnav
Even you learn 1%, Learn it with 100% confidence.
Know any good performance monitoring and analysis tools for SQL server.
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I have to load data from from a text file ( approx 3-5 million rows) into a table .
I can use straight bcp with the format file , but the loading of data has to follow some business logic
Let me know if there are any third party tool to load the data instead of regular bcp
I have SqlServer 7.0 on Windows NT 4.0
Thanks in advance
Does anyone know any software to backup single tables ? i recall one software that extracts the data into a text file called SQLinsert or something but wondering if they are others around ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHey guys I really need your help.
We've outsourced our software last year, and it really a big mess for us since that company has been clashed. Then it so happened that the system failed to function well. Our batch transactions was working about 56 mins.. that is 24 records. Then it happened that this time 28 records was finished for about an hour. Our business hour is 8 hours only. That's why we have a back log now. We also failed to validate transaction since it takes a lot of effort before we update the database. It's working before but as our database becomes larger there are many errors occur in our application. Majority is runtime error. Then it happened that now we cannot move on anymore. We are using SQL server 2000 with VB6.0 application. our server memory is 1GB. Do you think adding additional memory will solve our problem?
Thanks!!
I prefer to write SQL code, without graphical tools.Have third party Query Analyzer that has filter and sort abilities?Also I looking for SQL editor with Completion ability (like we know forprogramming lang),for assist me write more quickly.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am working on a SSIS package to move data between SQL2005 and DB2. I currently have the DB2 ADO .Net connector from DataDirect which works fine for connecting to the AS400. My question is that I am working on a script transformation and I want to be able to use the Connection already created in the package their.
I can set it up just fine using the properties for the script, but there appears to be no way to create SQLCommands and connections unless I reference the DataDirector DLL in the script, which requires adding it to the GAC and the Framework folder.
I am just wondering if this is the correct way to go about this or if there are any other recommendations. Please let me know if I need to supply more information.
Thanks,
Chris
Currently we are using SQL Servers Backup utility to backup our databases to disk and then the files to backup tape during a nightly backup.
The time it takes for the backups to disk to complete for the databases is becoming prohibitively long and performance problems on the DB server are manifesting.
I am interested in other solutions. However, the propaganda listed at the various companies sites are less than insightful.
I was wondering if anyone used a third party Agent like Brightstor Enterprise SQL Server backup agent, or Veritas NetBackup for SQL Server, that would be willing to give some recommendations. If you use something that isn't listed here and it works well, I would be interested in hearing about it.
Do these backup agents significantly slow down the database performance? Do they create any locking issues? Some insight into your backup hardware configuration would be helpful as well. Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi All,
I am pretty new to SQL and would like a bit of friendly help, please. Am trying to set up a .Net web site that will have dynamic content supplied by a true SQL server (am using MSDE to build this first).
My issue is in building a search engine on my web site that will return hits from the content of the pages which are loaded in MSDE.
Is there a third party or open source search engine available?
Any clues for how to build (or beg, borrow or steal) a workable search engine to do this?
Many thanks,
Newbie
Folks,I work on a system which is growing rapidly, with the number oftransactions we process growing on a daily basis. While this is goodnews or the business, maintenance is starting to become an issue as thedatabase is the backend for a website which cannot be down for alengthy period of time.While I do defrag the indexes, periodically the indexes do need to berebuilt. When this happens, the process locks pages and transactionsstart getting bounced out.Are their any third party utilities which will rebuild an indexwithout this locking occuring? Any help in pointing me in the rightdirection would be appreciated.
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R