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Use Database Manager utility to view the SolarWinds Platform database

This article explains how to use the Database Manager utility to view the SolarWinds Platform database. This article is a part of the Quick SolarWinds Platform database health check guide.

First published date

10/18/2018 10:45 AM

Last published date

5/27/2025 10:45 PM

Overview

This article describes how to use the Database Manager utility to view the SolarWinds Platform database.

This is a part of the Quick Orion database health check guide.

Related topics include:

Product section

Orion Platform

Resolution

Navigate to the server hosting your SolarWinds Platform product.
From the Windows Start menu, search for Database Manager. Or look under the Start menu folder: SolarWinds Orion.
When the application loads, click Add Orion Server (or Add Default Server on older software versions).
To connect to a non-default server, click Add Server and enter the data manually.
Expand the database section to view the tables for installed SolarWinds applications.

You can see a tree of tables on this SQL server.

Further actions

To display database details, right-click the database section, and select Server details.
To run a query, right-click the database or the table, select New Query, paste a SQL query into the New Query tab, and execute the query.
To delete or modify a particular record, right-click the table, execute a query, and click Enable Editing.

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