This year, SentryOne Plan Explorer is 10 years old. Recently, I reminisced with Greg Gonzalez (b|t) and Aaron Bertrand (b|t) about the decade-long journey of our favorite query tuning tool.…
Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people’s fingertips, they’re often overlooked or under-appreciated as a tool to provide robust…
A few weeks after I started with an insurance company as a rookie COBOL developer, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Because I worked for…
In this 100-level class, Kevin M. Sparenberg, Technical Content Manager for THWACK®, presents a simple introduction to the SolarWinds® Orion® Software Development Kit (SDK). Instructions include how to download the…
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is taking the cloud by storm. 2019 saw very successful IPOs from DataDog and Dynatrace with multi-billion dollar valuations, as well as the $1 billion acquisition…
Ransomware attacks are on the rise—it feels like not a week goes by where you don’t hear about some company or municipality being the victim of a ransomware attack. While…
How much do you really know about the SolarWinds® Orion® Platform? Regardless of your level of expertise, even the most seasoned user will learn a thing or two in this episode. We’ll…
The SentryOne team has kicked off 2020 with changes to our product portfolio that aren’t just enhancements. This evolution includes the introduction of new options for documenting and mapping your…
In this episode, Head Geek and overall database guru Thomas LaRock will lead a discussion of the newest addition to the SolarWinds database performance monitoring family–VividCortex. Thomas will be joined…
As a database administrator (aka DBA, or Default Blame Acceptor) throughout my career, I’ve worked with a myriad of developers, system administrators, and business users who have all had the…
