Developing a new application means there are many decisions an organization needs to make. One of the most important choices that the development...
How to Choose the Right Database for Your Application
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Robert Agar
A Simple Way to Make Your SQL Server DBAs More Efficient
The role of an SQL Server database administrator brings with it a wide range of responsibilities. On any given day a DBA may have to address...
The Best Practices for Implementing Effective Monitoring
Monitoring is an important activity that is performed in many diverse situations. From healthcare workers to stockbrokers, monitoring the systems on...
How to Keep Critical Systems Running During the Pandemic
The word critical has taken on increased importance in multiple disciplines since the world was subjected to the novel coronavirus. Items and...
Monitoring is the Key to Improving Database Performance
Performance is a term that gets thrown around in many different contexts. It’s a much sought-after commodity in endeavors as diverse as sports,...
The Use of MySQL in the Scientific Community
MySQL is an extremely popular relational database management system (RDBMS) that is used in many different sectors of business and industry. It is...
Top 7 Reasons for SQL Database Performance Issues and How to Overcome Them
Fine-tuning SQL code is not a one-off effort. It's a recurring task for database administrators (DBAs) as changing conditions can adversely...
Increase the Value of Your Data with Dashboards
Tremendous volumes of information are generated and collected daily in corporate databases. These data resources are one of the organization’s...
What the Regulatory Auditors Want to See
The very mention of the words “regulatory audit” can send shivers down the spine of an organization’s IT management team. There...
Protecting Healthcare Computing Resources in the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced members of society to make many changes in their daily lives. Social distancing, working remotely and wearing masks...
Why You Want to Monitor Your Network
Many moving parts make up a modern IT environment. The average computing environment is a complicated construction comprised of servers,...
Why You Need to Track Database Changes
Change is a constant that all IT professionals accept as part of the job. There are many different concrete manifestations of the abstract concept...
Planning for a Successful Database Migration
There are many different database platforms that organizations can choose for collecting, storing, and analyzing their data resources. They range...
How to Keep Track of Your SQL Servers
The designers of modern SQL Server environments have many implementation models available to them. Based on the organization’s needs,...
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...
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....