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September #SQLChat – Big Data and the DBA
With Big Data only getting bigger, what new technologies and tools should both junior and seasoned DBAs learn to stay relevant? Join IDERA...
How to Make Your Database Administrators More Efficient
The role of a corporate database administrator has evolved tremendously since the introduction of relational databases in the late 1970s. A DBA from...
Tracking Changes in a Cross-Platform Environment
Change is an intrinsic component of an IT professional’s work-life that can manifest itself in many different ways. Completely new paradigms...
Alert Overload can Result in Ineffective Monitoring
The monitoring of IT systems is an important practice that should be in place in any complex computing environment. It provides a window into the...
Announcing the GA Release of SQL Compliance Manager 5.6.1
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Compliance Manager 5.6.1 SQL Compliance Manager is a comprehensive database auditing solution that...
Survival in the Land of Compliance Audits
As you innocently go about your daily work activities on a Friday afternoon you notice a new email and crack it open. The message is from management...
Problem Queries are Killing Your Database Performance
Tuning database performance is a complicated task that can be a thorn in the side of the database team. There are many interconnected components and...
How to improve SQL Server performance with better indexing
SQL Server performance is always one of the most challenging subjects. Hard drives are getting cheaper and cheaper, and data is growing...
Protection for Your SQL Databases in the Cloud
The cloud computing paradigm offers organizations many business and technical advantages that are driving its popularity. While these benefits may...
DBArtisan Tips and Tricks for July
The July edition of DBArtisan tips and techniques covered three tips for using DBArtisan. Datasource Navigator SQL Editor Migrating Schema and Data...
Precise is the Best Tool to Identify Database Performance Gains
IDERA’s Precise Application Performance Platform offers users a comprehensive monitoring tool designed to assist in identifying issues that...
Where to start with performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server
For a database professional, the most dreaded time is when the database server is unresponsive so that it does not serve the application requests....
What You Need to Know About Entity-Relationship Models
An entity-relationship model - also known as an ER Model, ER Diagram or ERD - is a graphical representation of entities and their relationships used...
Analyzing the Capital One Data Breach
Analyzing the Capital One Data Breach Last week, Capital One hit the news with one of the largest data breaches recorded. In this particular...
Why You Need to Know What You Don’t Know
In the complicated world of database management, a lot of data needs to be assimilated by those responsible for keeping the systems healthy and...
The Benefits of SQL Server Health Checks
Multiple benefits can be gained through the use of SQL server health checks. They might not be at the top of your DBA’s to-do list, but a...
Apply to the IDERA ACE Program!
Applications for the 2020 IDERA ACEs are now open! The search has begun for the 2020 IDERA ACEs. Do you have a passion for helping the community and...
Why You Should Automate MySQL Server Synchronization
One of the tasks a MySQL DBA is responsible for is keeping data synchronized between different but related instances of their databases. It is a...
Ensuring Security By Monitoring Performance
In the conclusion of our blog series, The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance, we outline how performance metrics can be...
Make Sure Unauthorized Users Stay Out of Your Database
Protecting your database is a critical responsibility of today’s DBA. It has always been important to control access to a company’s...
It Can Be Painful to Find Your Problem SQL Statements
One of the most important tasks that fall under the responsibility of your DBAs is the optimization of their SQL servers and associated databases....
Why an Application’s Performance Matters
Most software applications provide results through some form of interaction. The interaction may come in the form of large data sets being crunched...
Metrics To Optimize Security and Performance
Next in our series, The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance: we explore best practices for capacity planning as well as...