MariaDB came into being the day that Oracle announced the purchase of Sun in 2010. In order to keep it free under the GNU GPL, Michael Widenius...
How Monyog Helps Profile Slow Queries in MariaDB
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Essential Alerting for Oracle, DB2, and Sybase DBAs
Precise tests availability, space, deadlocks, backups, jobs, CPU, load and performance trending plus many more conditions on a scheduled basis with...
Backing Up Databases in a High Availability Group
If you are a database administrator, then you are no stranger to the idea that data must be highly available. High availability simply...
TEMP is A Four Letter Word
It’s not uncommon to observe rampant over reliance of database application code on TEMP tables, most often as a SQL language programming...
Database Execution Plans Can Lie
Quote: Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt. I started this...
The Evolution of Database Tuning Approaches
Imagine that you’re the lead DBA managing a high profile, mission critical production database whose application processes $20 million per...
Managing Mountains of Data with the Cloud
When is data less valuable? How do you manage data as it becomes less valuable? In the good old days the answer to these questions was easy; it was...
Improve MariaDB Performance using Query Profiling
Query profiling is a useful technique for analyzing the overall performance of a database. Considering that a single mid-to-large sized application...
Error Logging in MySQL 8
Although only available as a Release Candidate, MySQL 8 is already proving itself to be a huge leap forward in many regards. Error logging is no...
Webyog joins Idera’s Database Tools Family
We’re excited to announce that Webyog has been acquired by Idera, Inc. Idera, Inc. is a leading provider of B2B software productivity tools that...
Announcing SQL Safe Backup 8.5 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Safe Backup 8.5. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer...
Creating Custom Reports in Precise
The Precise solution gathers a lot of information across all tiers of web-based applications, as well as database activity. This data is stored in...
“Today is Never in the Daily Tables” – How Precise Aggregates Data
Precise’s historic repository, the Performance Management Database (PMDB) holds up to a three-year history of performance data by default. The...
Dealing with Database Security
Nearly every month there is another announcement about a company disclosing a data breach in which sensitive customer data was exposed. Last week,...
Database Audit Log Monitoring for Security and Compliance
We recently conducted a webinar on Audit Log analysis for MySQL & MariaDB Databases. This blog will further provide a deep dive into the...
The RDBMS is Dead
If you suspected the title of this blog is click-bait, then you would be correct. But bear with me anyway on a little retrospection of...
What’s the most important thing SQL Server DBAs want to learn in 2018?
Our product management team at IDERA recently polled a sample of our customer base and asked them to tell us what is the most important technology...
A Short Introduction to the SQL Safe Command Line Interface (CLI)
SQL Safe Backup offers a number of different ways to initiate a backup/restore operation. Operations can be initiated from the SQL Safe Management...
SQL Inventory Manager Reporting
We have heard a number of our DBA customers ask for reporting of SQL Inventory Manager data for a number of reasons - (be able to provide executive...
Monyog MySQL Monitor v8.5.0: Introducing Audit Log Analysis
Changes as compared to Monyog MySQL Monitor v8.4.1 include: This release fixes a few minor bugs only and implements a number of user requests....
Microsoft NET performance
The Precise Application Performance Platform measures end-users transactions from “click to disk”. If the most resources are consumed within...
Five Important Features of SQL Diagnostic Manager
SQL Diagnostic Manager is a robust performance monitoring, alerting and diagnostics solution for SQL Server. It proactively notifies of health,...
Preview: Top MySQL 8 Features
Although there is no official software release for MySQL 8.0 as of yet, most insiders believe that it’s likely to arrive sometime in 2018. In the...
Precise for Oracle Has Low Overhead, Impact
Precise for Oracle can monitor real database performance with incredibly low overhead. In fact, we rarely even use a connection to the database, yet...