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What are best practices for security practices for SQL Server?
There are several examples where data theft has brought organizations to a halt or resulted in a bad press that will leave a tarnished image. For...
How can you achieve predictable business intelligence (BI) performance with unpredictable queries?
SQL Server database administration is difficult; queries and indexes require tuning in response to application changes. For many database...
Announcing the General Availability of SQL Compliance Manager 5.8
We are excited to announce the release of SQL Compliance Manager 5.8. SQL Compliance Manager is the industry leading SQL Server auditing solution...
Announcing Precise 10.2 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the release of Precise 10.2, the company’s application performance monitoring platform. This latest release...
What are the complications of cybersecurity in the cloud?
Cloud computing services offer many advantages for companies or organizations that make use of them. There are often financial incentives involved...
Tuning Your MySQL Databases for Better Performance
The tremendous popularity of the open-source relational database solution known as MySQL shows no signs of slowing down. As of June 2020, the only...
What do you need to know about security threats for SQL Server?
Today, organizations are about data. Database systems and the elements they store are arguably the most valuable assets in any given enterprise. Not...
C++Builder and Platforms Support
David Millington (Senior Product Manager), Atanas Popov (General Manager, Developer Tools), Kyle Wheeler (General Manager, C++) Over the past year,...
Why will your SQL Server service not start?
The executable process that is the SQL Server Database Engine is called the Database Engine service. The Database Engine service is an executable...
What are the top cluster setup mistakes for SQL Server?
Windows Failover Clustering can keep your SQL Server databases online and your customers happy when hardware or operating system problems strike....
Defragment Your Indexes For Better Database Performance
Providing information is the most fundamental purpose of a database. This is accomplished through queries that are submitted by the database’s...
How can you prevent SQL Server intrusions?
Understanding how SQL Server can be infiltrated is the key to understanding how to prevent intrusions. The consequences for inadequate permissions...
Finding the Best Way to Present Your Data
Modern organizations use their data resources for many essential activities. The information contained in enterprise databases is used to drive...
The Value of an IT Capacity Planning Strategy
Planning to ensure that requirements are met is a practice that is performed in many different situations. The need to accurately plan manifests...
How should you handle the complexities of regulatory compliance?
The reliance on digitally stored information continues to grow and now dominates society in the 21st Century. The use of the Internet for business...
Which items do you need to audit in SQL Server?
SQL Server provides robust capabilities to monitor itself, and it can be easy to be overwhelmed with the choices presented through catalog or...
It is Never a Bad Time to Revisit User Permissions
A database needs users to provide any value to an organization. While it might be instructive from an academic point of view to simply collect large...
How can you balance database security and database performance?
The security of any database can be improved. However, that likely degrades the performance of the database. The cost increases to improve database...
Revised: 10.4 Patch and C++ Android Exception Handling
Edit 28 July 2020: Patch 3, released today, resolves this issue. We recommend you install it. Please see the blog post for installation instructions...
10.4 Patch #2: Delphi code completion and IDE fixes
10.4 Patch #2, released yesterday, makes many tweaks and changes to DelphiLSP code completion Delphi 10.4 redesigned Code Insight, one of the most...
Fixed in 10.4 Patch #2: Instability debugging in RAD Studio 10.4
10.4 Patch #2 fixes the issue where debugging could be unstable and show an unexpected dialog. Last month, I posted about an issue in 10.4 that...
Addressing Out of Control SQL Server Sprawl Effectively
Data is the driving force in business these days. Organizations rely on their information resources to make informed decisions regarding all aspects...
Вышел второй пакет исправлений для RAD Studio 10.4
В субботу 18 июля компания Embarcadero объявила о доступности для пользователей второго пакета оптимизации и исправлений для последней версии RAD...
The Benefits of Using a Unified Interface
Individuals in many different fields of endeavor make use of tools or processes that exhibit a certain degree of consistency. Finding something that...
Are you aware of these database risks?
Databases are vitally important to modern businesses across all market sectors. They are the repository of an organization’s information...
Why are health checks for SQL Server life savers?
SQL Server health checks have garnered a great deal of notoriety over the last five years. What was originally a niche offering more than ten years...
How can you protect personally identifiable information (PII) in databases?
The data resources of an organization are one of its most valuable assets. Except for its people, the information contained in enterprise databases...
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 7.8.6 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 7.8.6. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the...
Backups Are Important Because Hackers Never Rest
It’s an aspect of human nature that people tend to ignore repeated warnings that do not manifest themselves into real problems. Letting their...