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How to monitor Always On availability groups

Always On availability groups are part of an integrated solution with the goal of achieving the highest level of data availability and disaster...

Upgrade SKU to be Discontinued by March 31st

by Atanas Popov

Dear Customers, A few years back we introduced our Update Subscription program. This approach to licensing was a response to dominant industry...

Replication Performance Enhancements in MySQL 8

by michaelcaplan

Although it feels like it was only yesterday that Oracle released version 5.7 of their acclaimed MySQL Community Server, version 8 is already...

How to get alert notifications through SMS

by Tep Chantra

In a number of our products, such as SQL Diagnostic Manager and SQL Safe Backup, there exists a means to configure alert...

IDERA Helps You Face the Challenges of Implementing GDPR

by Joy Ruff

As many companies are coming to realize, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued by the EU, which takes effect in May 2018, has a lot...

Experimenting with Neural Networks – Part 8

by Craig Chapman

Best viewed full screen (recorded 1080p) http://chapmanworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ANNS-8.mp4

Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 2

by Jim Donahoe

Connecting to Failover Group So in Part 1 of this series, we created and configured our Failover Group. Well, now that the easy stuff is out of the...

Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 1

by Jim Donahoe

Introduction Hello everybody! One of my favorite features in Azure SQL DBaaS is Failover Groups. I have been working with these since they...

Configuring TempDB on Azure IaaS for SQL Server

by Jim Donahoe

Hey everybody! I am asked by clients/team members/friends a lot about how to setup TEMPDB to use the D:\ drive on an Azure VM for SQL Server. ...

Using QPI to identify high data usage in Elastic Pool

by Jim Donahoe

So I recently began working on a project for a client that wanted to move from a Premium Elastic Pool to a Standard Elastic Pool due to the...

February #SQLChat – Becoming a Microsoft MVP

by Former Member

Are you hoping to become a Microsoft MVP? Or, have you already gone through the application process yourself? Then participate in our next Twitter...

10.2.2 Welcome Page and Documentation Hotfix

by David Millington

In RAD Studio 10.2.2, we updated the Welcome page with new functionality: upcoming events, a Youtube feed from our channel, and sample...

Join us for a LIVE Video Episode of the Podcast at Delphi.org

by Jim McKeeth

Tomorrow will be a live episode of the Podcast at Delphi.org www.youtube.com/watch You can join us live on YouTube with your questions and comments,...

Alert Burnout

by billellis

Do you routinely ignore alerts? If you have an email rule that sends alerts to their own folder, that is a hint. If you find that a day...

Top 10 things to know about Alibaba Cloud RDS

by michaelcaplan

Cloud-based Relational Database Services (RDS) offer businesses a variety of traditional Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) with several...

Get Ready for the New Programmers!

by Jim McKeeth

U.S. News an World Report just ranked Software Developer as the best job for 2018. They use data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics to...

Law of the Instrument and Curse of the Programmer

by Jim McKeeth

If you aren’t familiar with the Law of the Instrument, otherwise known as Maslow’s hammer/gavel, or the golden hammer it is often expressed as If...

Some of my New Year’s #CodingResolutions

by Jim McKeeth

The joke goes that, when asked, the software developer responds that their New Year’s Resolution is “7680×4320” or 8K. Joking aside, tradition has...

New Discovery and Tuning Suite Now Available

by Scott Stone

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new suite of performance products packaged to fill the core needs of most SQL Server DBAs....

National Rubber Ducky Day 2018!

by Former Member

Our favorite holiday is almost here! National Rubber Ducky Day is Saturday, January 13. To help celebrate this holiday we are sending you our newest...