On this show, we talk about monitoring in SQL Server. But actually, monitoring is not only monitoring: It's also baselining, data collection, data analysis, reporting and alerting, and we cover all of those in the show. Among other topics, we talk about:

• The different levels of monitoring
• Why it's important to have a baseline
• Trend analysis
• What should you monitor in SQL Server
• The set of tools for monitoring, baselining, data collection, reporting and alerting
• What should you do when you get an alert about a certain problem
• And more..

Items mentioned in the show:

• Conor Cunningham – Managing 1 Million+ DBs-How Big Data is used to run SQL Azure
• Maria Zakourdaev – Alert Visualization Recipe

Happy 2015, everybody!