The designers of modern SQL Server environments have many implementation models available to them. Based on the organization’s needs,...
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First Steps to Implementing Effective Data Governance
Data governance is a collection of processes and practices designed to enable an organization to formally manage its data resources. It is becoming...
Why You Should be Encrypting Database Backups
Data security is a hot topic in the IT industry for reasons that range from simply safeguarding information resources to maintaining compliance with...
Handling the Challenges of MySQL Performance in the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the reliance that the world puts on resources available through websites. Though some of the information...
Heightened Productivity for Your DBAs with Aqua Data Studio
The importance of data resources to modern businesses has resulted in database administrators assuming a more critical role in the corporate IT...
The Challenge of Providing Peak SQL Server Performance
Of the many responsibilities thrust upon database administrators, attempting to provide peak performance is one that can attract a lot of unwanted...
The Importance of Database Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis
In the days before the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the world, many people took information technology (IT) and databases for granted....
Monitoring Infrastructure Will Help You Meet Your SLAs
In the world of information technology (IT) services, it is a requirement that some kind of contract defines the customer’s expectations and...
Backups are Your Best Friend When Disaster Strikes
IT professionals like programmers and database administrators have heard about best practices many times during their careers. Sometimes they adopt...
The Impact of COVID-19 on Database Security
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing havoc in many areas of society across the globe. It has been the cause of thousands of deaths and has stressed our...
The Best Way to Create a New Target Database
Creating a new target database is not something that the average DBA does every day. For this reason, it’s a procedure that may pose some...
Selecting the Best Cloud Environment for Your SQL Servers
The decision to move your SQL Servers to the cloud is not something that is usually done impulsively. There should be extensive planning that goes...
Data Visualization as a Tool in the Fight Against COVID-19
Disseminating accurate and understandable information is a crucial part of any strategy to fight the novel coronavirus and help control its spread....
How to Increase the Productivity of Your MySQL DBAs
MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) in the world. Only Oracle has a larger installed base. Professional...
Protect Your Databases by Detecting Suspicious Activity
Some of an organization’s most important computing systems are the databases that store its information assets. They may contain multiple...
Leveraging Data Resources in the Fight Against COVID-19
As the world struggles to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, it is faced with challenges that threaten to break our global healthcare systems....
Increase the Value of Your Data with the Right Visualization Tool
Data scientists and analysts work with large volumes of information as raw materials. Their job is to take the unprocessed ingredients and find ways...
Data Governance for Better Organizational Information Sharing
Data is widely considered to be the currency of the modern business world. Except for its people, an enterprise’s data resources are its most...
Managing Databases in the Face of the Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 virus that is currently plaguing the world has impacted virtually every aspect of our lives. Things we previously took for granted like...
Why Capacity Planning is Important for Your Business
Many related factors need to come together to create successful IT solutions that effectively address business needs. The first requirement is that...
Monitoring the Critical Applications That Benefit Society
As the world faces the onslaught of the COVID-19 virus and its effects on society, the availability of certain websites and applications takes on a...
Keep Your SQL Servers Secure with These Best Practices
Keeping an organization’s SQL Servers secure is the supporting DBAs’ most critical responsibility. The performance and availability of...
The Rise of Cross-Platform Database Administration
Time and money are two things that are always in short supply. Let’s face facts. It’s a rare individual who turns down some extra cash...
A Comprehensive Tool for Developing High-Performance SQL Code
Writing SQL code is something that database professionals are called upon to do regularly. The practice comes into play when developing new...