by XTIVIA | Aug 10, 2017 | Blog, SQL Server
There may be a time where you install security patch MS15-058, and it shows that it was successfully installed, but the version does not change in SQL. The patch actually failed to install. Follow these instructions get to MS15-058 installed successfully and have the...
by XTIVIA | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, SQL Server
Have you ever applied a patch to find that the server or service does not start after it was applied? There is nothing worse than working in a maintenance window trying to get services back up as quickly as possible when suddenly SQL will not start. Knowing that your...
by XTIVIA | Aug 1, 2017 | Blog, SQL Server
While there are many configuration options in SQL Server that can help tweak the performance when RAM or CPU is causing a slowdown, when the disk is the culprit, your options are much more limited. Assuming that best practices are followed in regards to file locations...
by XTIVIA | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog, MongoDB
Mtools is a third party tool suite that contains very easy to use utilities for troubleshooting or just gathering general knowledge about your MongoDB instance. These tools can be crucial when performance tuning, running a health check or examining log files. You can...
by XTIVIA | Jun 10, 2017 | Blog, MongoDB
Sometimes you may notice that everything in MongoDB is running fine, then you suddenly have performance issues that come up out of nowhere. There can be several reasons why this happens but I am going to cover a few of the common ones here. Long-running queries Index...
by XTIVIA | Jun 8, 2017 | Blog, MongoDB
There are many reasons why your database queries can start to lag or experience throughput issues. In this article I will do troubleshooting on two common issues with slow queries and a way to fix each one. When doing any performance tuning on a database it’s...
