The OpenEdge DBA Files

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.

Before we deep dive into OpenEdge client/server performance, let’s make sure everyone is on the same page. This short presentation discusses client/server performance challenges and the tools we’ll use for our benchmarking tests in part 2: Benchmark Results.

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.

Database Administrator (DBA). Sounds important, doesn’t it?  But what are you supposed to do every day?

People often ask us: “what tasks should an OpenEdge DBA be performing? When? What should my daily, weekly, quarterly, etc. checklist have on it?”

In this video Tom describes how you can monitor very active sessions in your OpenEdge environment.