Activity overview
Latest activity by GFritchey
I know you asked me to come by and help out here, but I don't have access to the code to understand what's going wrong. Sorry about that. I'm positive Evan will take care of you. / comments
I know you asked me to come by and help out here, but I don't have access to the code to understand what's going wrong. Sorry about that. I'm positive Evan will take care of you.
I'm just getting going on a few of these things myself. I noticed this right away: http://www.red-gate.com/messageboard/vi ... sfolderxml
You might want to update real quick. This only came out yesterday. / comments
I'm just getting going on a few of these things myself. I noticed this right away:http://www.red-gate.com/messageboard/vi ... sfolderxml
You might want to update real quick. This only came out yest...
I do work for Red Gate, but I just recently left a company that was running SCOM and a database monitoring software, both.
The strengths of SCOM are that you have a single source of monitoring for your enterprise, regardless of the type of server you're dealing with. You also have a very good degree of customizability. There are standard reports. The SQL Server Management Pack includes all kinds of specialized server monitoring and alerts built in, right out of the box. The alerting is extremely good in SCOM.
The weaknesses of SCOM can be expressed around SQL Server in particular very well. SCOM is good at monitoring the server and databases, but it's a very bad tool for monitoring real time behavior of the system. You really can't track long running queries, blocking, and that sort of behavior well in SCOM. That's where a tool like SQL Monitor stands out. It goes directly into the more tactical monitoring and alerting at a lower level, more specific to SQL Server than SCOM gets.
Personally, I was very happy to have had two tools, one for the server and the other for SQL Server. I really don't see it as a choice between the two, but a decision to use both because they both bring stuff to the table. / comments
I do work for Red Gate, but I just recently left a company that was running SCOM and a database monitoring software, both.
The strengths of SCOM are that you have a single source of monitoring for ...
What's the word on this issue? I haven't run into myself but I just saw someone hit it over on AskSSC. Manually editing the transaction type "solved" the problem, but I'd be interested in seeing if something else was going on to provide better solutions within the tool. / comments
What's the word on this issue? I haven't run into myself but I just saw someone hit it over on AskSSC. Manually editing the transaction type "solved" the problem, but I'd be interested in seeing if...