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Spotlight Provides Unparalleled Visibility for SQL Optimization

Spotlight Provides Unparalleled Visibility for SQL Optimization

By placing comprehensive database analytics at your fingertips, Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise lets you know where to focus your SQL optimization efforts. Use Spotlight to quickly diagnose the issues and queries that slow your system down.

There’s a price tag associated with not pursuing SQL optimization – this is why tuning is so important. Spotlight gives you the detailed information you need to target areas that will yield the highest impact. Get features like

  • Workload analysis – view resource consumption over time across multiple dimensions and levels of granularity
  • Drill down – narrow your SQL optimization efforts to single statements and queries
  • Mobile capability – monitor database performance from anywhere at any time with your mobile device
  • System health check – obtain a holistic view of the health of your system and benchmark results with other users

Get a free trial of Spotlight today.

The Fundamental Guide to SQL Query Optimization

SQL query optimization is both an art and a science, undertaken by intrepid database professionals who relish the challenge of identifying and tuning queries that are impacting performance. It can be difficult, but it’s certainly not impossible.

This e-book provides a reliable method for analyzing and addressing performance issues in your SQL Server environment. The SQL query tuning tips presented use detailed, real-world examples to demonstrate how applying them can make a quantitative difference in performance. No matter your level of expertise, this is an indispensable resource for anyone responsible for SQL query optimization.

The five SQL query tuning tips presented in this guide offer detailed, copy-and-paste examples showing their application and results.

Learn how to:

  • Monitor wait times
  • Read an execution plan
  • Find the driving tables
  • And, see how all the steps in this process work together to help you isolate and correct the code that causes performance issues
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Spotlight Provides Unparalleled Visibility into SQL Server Performance

By placing comprehensive database analytics at your fingertips, Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise enables enhanced monitoring of SQL Server performance. Use Spotlight to quickly diagnose the issues and queries that slow your system down.

There’s a price tag associated with poor SQL Server performance – this is why tuning is so important. Spotlight gives you the detailed information you need to focus your efforts in the right places for the highest impact. Get features like:

  • Workload analysis – view resource consumption over time across multiple dimensions and levels of granularity
  • Drill down – narrow your focus to single SQL statements and queries
  • Mobile capability – monitor database performance from anywhere at any time with your mobile device
  • System health check – obtain a holistic view of the health of your system and benchmark results with other users

Get a free trial of Spotlight today.

Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise

Monitor and optimize SQL Server database performance from any device. Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise delivers simplicity without compromise by providing unmatched SQL Server monitoring, diagnosis and optimization of your database environment to ensure peak performance around the clock.

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SQL Server environments are becoming more complex while remaining a critical component of your application architecture. It’s a struggle to keep up with this continual growth without the right SQL monitoring tools. What if you could proactively manage your SQL Server environment and diagnose database performance issues by viewing the health of all your SQL Server instances on a single screen, anytime, anywhere on any device? You can with the right SQL Server monitoring tool.

With Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise, you can manage your SQL Server environment while also gaining visibility into your operating system – Windows or Linux – and also monitor your virtualization infrastructure. Make configuration a breeze with templates, automated alerts and customizable actions. Spend less time fighting fires by accurately diagnosing real-time and historical database performance issues, and focus on more proactive measures like query tuning.

Key benefits

Simplicity without compromise

Quick installation and simple configuration let you start monitoring environments immediately.

End-to-end monitoring

Get a complete picture of everything that affects your SQL Server performance

Features

24x7 monitoring and diagnostics

Agentless monitoring from a centralized diagnostic server with alarms for performance deviations

Powerful root cause analysis

Create multiple diagnostic workflows, including detailed workload analysis and deadlock detection

Incident playback

Rewind dashboards and diagnostic drilldowns to incident occurrence and review it in slow motion

SQL analysis and Xpert tuning

SQL Optimizer integration highlights long-running queries and sub-optimal code for further tuning

Health check and intelligence

Obtain a holistic view of the health of your system and benchmark results with other users

Customize for your environment

Set custom thresholds, create counters and establish rule-based actions on a one-time or recurring basis

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Prioritize at a Glance
Intuitive Dashboards
Monitor and diagnose
Wait Stat Analysis
Workload Analysis
Replication Dashboard
Analysis Services

Prioritize at a Glance

Our Heatmap prioritizes at a glance across all monitored instances.

Intuitive Dashboards

Follow indicators on context-specific dashboards to the problem source.

Monitor and diagnose

Operating system diagnostics with SQL Server VNext on Linux

Wait Stat Analysis

Quickly identify what is waiting on resources right down to SQL statements.

Workload Analysis

Divide workload by host, database, user or SQL statement in a few clicks.

Replication Dashboard

Watch for any failures or bottlenecks across your replication topology.

Analysis Services

Monitor instances from the Spotlight dashboard and diagnostic drilldowns.

Support and services

Product Support

Self-service tools will help you to install, configure and troubleshoot your product.

Support Offerings

Find the right level of support to accommodate the unique needs of your organization.