During this pandemic, many healthcare organizations are struggling with a shortage of medical supplies and staffing. They are also experiencing a...
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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...
Monitoring Oracle Containers and Pluggable Databases with Precise
Precise for Oracle allows you to monitor Oracle Container Databases and Pluggable Databases (also known as Oracle Mult Tenant Architecture). It...
COVID-19 Disruption Navigation
IT Systems Under Pressure? We’re here to help during this uncertain time. View our free resources to help you navigate disruption caused by...
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...
Using SQL Server Database Projects
Back in 2012, I had the pleasure and privilege of working with one of the sharpest developers I’ve ever met. He was a .NET lead of the...
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...
Are Statistics Being Used?
You know those tweets that you see once but can never find again? I remember seeing one a while ago where someone tweeted to #sqlhelp asking if the...
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....
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...
Ensure Database Health
Keep multiple database platforms running with a single tool. Organizations react to rapidly changing demands because of the escalating crisis while...
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...
Protect your SQL Servers During the Pandemic
How are you dealing with security vulnerabilities during these turbulent times? Because of the unfolding pandemic, organizations need to make urgent...
How to monitor SQL Server performance with SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
The monitoring of SQL Server environments is much more straightforward with quality monitoring applications. The proper monitoring applications can...
DevOps, SQL Quality, and Performance
If you have ever written SQL statements then you know how flexible it is. Almost always there are several different ways to write a SQL query that...
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 types of...
How to add SQL Server instances to SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
With SQL Diagnostic Manager, monitor the performance of the entire SQL Server environment by quickly and easily adding SQL Server instances. There...
Why is database backup compression better than file deduplication?
Database administrators often argue with their storage administrators about not compressing database backups. Storage Administrators state that they...
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...
COVID-19 and Tools to Support Database Professionals
Are you working in crisis mode and need some help? Organizations are reacting to rapidly changing demands because of the current escalating crisis....
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...