by Katherine Villyard | Feb 26, 2024 | sql
My company recently moved to AWS, so I’ve been looking for more information specific to SQL Server performance tuning in AWS. Unfortunately, a lot of what I’m finding is marketing copy devoid of technical detail. Apparently, moving my data to the cloud is great for...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 29, 2012 | monitoring
You may be asking yourself, “Self, why should I cough up cash for SQL Monitor or spend time (or pay someone to spend time) setting up Nagios?” The answer, of course, is: Do you want to know something is wrong now, or when a customer calls you and says...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 6, 2012 | monitoring, scripting
I checked out Nagios Exchange, and didn’t see anything that checked the status of a job and used Windows/AD credentials/trusted connection. So I wrote this. It’s intended to run as an NRPE script, and doesn’t require anything that doesn’t come...