DBAs Have Feelings!
Computers don’t have feelings, but humans that operate them do. Sometimes we pretend as if we don’t have feelings, but that’s just a show. In reality, feelings are everywhere. Even in our work. How do…
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DATABASE MIRROR
Symptoms: Slow SQL responses coming from failure of the database mirroring. Impact: Medium Description: This alert works alongside the alert for Mirror not connected which reports when the connection between the two databases is completely…
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REMOTE DESKTOP ACTIVITY
Metric: Remote Desktop Activity Impact: Informational Description: AimBetter tracks the incidence of users accessing the database through a remote…
ALWAYSON NOT SYNCHRONIZED
Symptoms: AlwaysOn now reads as ‘not synchronized’ indicating loss of quorum for the database cluster. The database is no longer…
QUERIES BLOCKED
Symptoms: Users report that some process has stopped or timed-out. Impact: Medium This alert means that some unidentified query has…
INTERNET PACKET LOSS
Lost packets alert indicates that communications with the internet either get no response or only get a partial response. As…
HOST: DISK AVAILABLE SPACE
Symptoms : Free space ratio on the designated disk has fallen below the threshold. Impact : High Maintaining sufficient storage space…
SQL DATA GROWTH
Symptoms: Total database size increased and is now larger than the designated threshold. Impact: Medium Rapid increase in database size…
