As SoftIce is officially dead, you might want to find its substitution. There is one product which aims to fully substitute SoftIce – Syser debugger, which proposes pretty close user interface, and “live” debugging of kernel on a host machine: [...] Please, read the rest of this post at http://www.shcherbyna...
I've been looking at this new feature of SQL Server 2008 in order to demo it to customers, and I have to say it's pretty cool ! Along with Resource Governor and compression, it's one of my favourite new features and a good reason to consider an upgrade. Performance Studio builds on the concept...
I’m always of fan of shortcuts and the Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Companion from Microsoft Press has a complete list of the command line shortcuts for starting Administrative Consoles for Server 2008. There are plenty of other goodies in this book so make sure you take a look at getting...
SolarWinds released recently a free Microsoft Exchange monitoring tool . " SolarWinds free Exchange Monitor is a clever desktop dashboard that continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. SolarWinds free Exchange...
Recently I have been involved to carry over an assesment of server utilization on the SQL estate farm (nearly 150+) instances, as it stands it is not an easy job to obtain the results when you have no influence on accessing required information on a shared platform. So in order to get the results quickly...
I attended a SQL Server User Group meeting earlier this year and heard a presentation about favourite DMV's. Mentioned in the discussion was sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats and that got me thinking about indexing strategies. I have been involved in performance troubleshooting databases that have used...
Ross Smith IV announced at the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog that the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator v14.7 has been released and that it includes some major improvements. According to the updates tracking page at the You Had Me At EHLO blog, some of the new enhancements...
I've had one or two requests recently to set up the Performance Dashboard reports on SQL Server so I've created this blog post to step through the process. Firstly, the Performance Dashboard was created to allow customers and support engineers to monitor the general performance characteristics...
Some days ago a colleague of mine pointed out to me this tool ( IETester ) that allows testing the different rendering and JavaScript engines of Internet Explorer (5.5, 6, 7 and 8beta1) side by side with the installed version. I haven’t tested IETester yet, but I found two other tools in the site that...
While I’ve always been a fan of Task Manager but lets face the facts…its has its limitations. Mark Russinovich has rolled up his wonderful Sysinternal Troubleshooting Utilities into a single download that can be found here . In there you will find the ultra popular Process Explorer . Well...