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Watch the webinar “Pragmatic monitoring: Guiding IT with SLA management and application monitoring” by Robert Vandervoort to learn more...

Database administrators must monitor their databases for factors such as availability, health, and performance. However, monitoring also has costs...

There are three distinct approaches organizations can follow to implement Data Governance. There is the command-and-control approach, the...

Database security is perhaps the most important part of an information security program that many people are not paying attention to. Some might...

A data model organizes data elements and standardizes their relation to each other and the properties of real-world entities. Edgar F. Codd...

The data management professionals of today are finding their landscape changing. They have multiple database platforms to manage and need to control...

If applications fail or suffer from low performance levels, then organizations lose revenues and customers. Information Technology (IT) operations...

Database administrators are busier than ever these days, so fighting fires is the last thing they want to spend their time doing. A proactive...

In the data management arena, you may hear from data professionals that if you don’t get the data right, nothing else matters. Several factors...

The choice between paid and open-source software tools can be a confusing one for decision makers. The promise of obtaining software that can reduce...

Data architects face many challenges on a day-to-day basis. Models and associated metadata are the only means by which you can understand and manage...

The cloud is transforming the way modern-day applications are being designed. Data is at the center of multiple challenges while architecting...

The tempdb system database is essential for the performance of SQL Server. The tempdb system database holds temporary user objects, results created...

Successful organizations realize the importance of investing in high availability to reduce the impact of downtime when a disaster happens. SQL...