The OpenEdge DBA Files

Welcome to our monthly ProTop newsletter, where you’ll find out what’s new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop.

What is going on with the database!?! Lack of visibility is a complaint we often hear, and ProTop specifically exists to address this complaint. This month we are going to dive into one of the most valuable (and free!) features in ProTop RT: users of a table and users of an index.

In part one, we examined routine tasks scheduled for different times. In this post we’re going to look at special events and the checklists associated with them.

Welcome to our monthly ProTop newsletter, where you’ll find out what’s new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop.

Today we’re going to take a deep dive into ProTop’s advanced alerting functionality. While the free version of ProTop provides a smorgasbord of data and insight into your OpenEdge environment, the commercial version adds features like alerting that help you sleep better at night.

In Part One, we discussed some of the more well known startup parameters. In today’s blog post, we’ll dig into parameters that are often used incorrectly or simply forgotten.

Every experienced IT person knows that bad things tend to happen on Fridays, and Friday evening is when we got alerted: major performance problems on the primary database server at one of our Enterprise clients.

We often get asked “what’s the magic go fast database parameter setting?” Nobody asks about the go slow settings.

The best way to avoid disasters is to learn from mistakes, preferably someone else’s. Memorize this series or polish your resume-writing skills!

Welcome to our monthly ProTop newsletter, where you’ll find out what’s new, tips and tricks and other cool ways to use both the free and commercial versions of ProTop.