The OpenEdge DBA Files

A catalog of wince-inducing practices to be avoided for the OpenEdge or, indeed any, database.

Why is storage so important in a world of 99.9% buffer hits?  I’m glad you asked!

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.

Visibility is one of the key themes when it comes to ProTop, and having the ability to see how the various objects in your database are growing is the focus of the storage statistics trends dashboard.

Nectar Daloglou‘s post on 99 Ways to Crash Your Database was so popular, we thought we’d bring you even MORE ways to ruin the upcoming holidays!

In today’s missive, we are going to talk about poor, misunderstood memory. How much is used? How much is free? How exactly do you define “used” and “free” memory? And the million dollar question: why should you care?

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.