When I got my first production DBA job, we were given pagers for on-call issues.  And in managing a multi-regional backend database system, that pager went off – alot. Eventually the pager became a cell phone and a laptop, and finally a smartphone (the mythical Blackberry was reserved for executives at that time, and the iPhone wasn’t even a twinkle in Steve Jobs’s eye).  The worst part about being an on-call production DBA was always that you simply couldn’t do much without driving into work (and boy could that pose a challenge sometimes).  Today, with the advances in mobile devices, and with internet/WiFi becoming standard and reasonably fast most anywhere you travel, DBAs are expected to respond to problems faster, so tools that make that possible are fast becoming mission critical.  The problem is, most web-enabled SQL Server performance managment products are simply not good enough.  They offer too small a subset of information, are not responsive enough, or are cripplingly limited in the functionality they provide.

Full web-enablement – from alert, to diagnosis, to root cause analysis. What can you do with Foglight for SQL Server?  If you’re an operational DBA, everything necessary to get to the root of what went bump in the night to wake you. Full alarm resolution workflow; enterprise-level and cross-platform health checks; diagnostic drill-downs to guide you toward the root cause of a problem; customizable interfaces with drag & drop capabilities; full administrative control.

Foglight for SQL Server Mobile Web Support

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