Challenges
- Purchased DPA to:
- Improve end-user response time (application performance)
- Improve database performance
- Improve visibility into the database and the systems that support it
- Accelerate root-cause identification for performance problems
- Improve collaboration between DBAs, developers, operations and other IT teams
- Monitor overall health of our databases and be alerted when issues arise
- Help database professionals spend less time looking for problems inside the database
Use Case
- Platforms:
- Windows
- Linux
- Solaris/AIX/UNIX
- Mainframe
- VMWare
- Public Cloud
- Database engines:
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- DB2
- Sybase
- MySQL / MariaDB / Percona
Results
- Realized the following benefits as a result of using DPA:
- Increased database performance and end user experience
- Improved visibility into their environment and improved collaboration (less finger pointing for troubleshooting)
- Achieved faster problem resolution and more proactive management of databases
- Has the ability to find problems that were hard or impossible to find before