In this Skill Sprint video from the DBA and Developer Skill Sprint series we look at object filtering in DBArtisan and Rapid SQL; Learn more about...
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Data Breaches: A Shift from Pure Prevention to Monitoring and Collaboration
It’s every Database Administrator’s nightmare to see your company’s name in the headlines in connection with a high profile data breach. Breaches...
ISQL Editor in DBArtisan and Rapid SQL – DBA and Developer Skill Sprints
In this skill sprint we cover ISQL editor features in DBArtisan and Rapid SQL. Learn about the options available in the ISQL window for different...
MSSQLTips Reviews Top New SQL Free Tools from Idera
Most of you are aware of the variety of free tools Idera offers to the SQL community to help with SQL Server tasks. Some of you have even mentioned...
Finding Your Top Offending Statements with Extended Events
Finding the top offending statements for a specific workload can be hard if you are not using the best tool in your toolbox. On SQL Server 2012 and...
Continuous Delivery in the Database
What is Continuous Delivery? Agile Software development deals with the shorter development cycles and frequent releases. This development process...
Life of a DBA in GIFs
A Database Administrator experiences a wide range of emotions. It could be one those endless meetings, friendly disagreements with fellow...
Detecting memory leaks with Precise
Memory leaks in java and .NET can cause major performance issues with the application. Precise helps you to detect those memory leaks. In java,...
Taking Server Monitoring Alerts up a Level
In this blog I wanted to tackle strategies for monitoring that go beyond looking for and responding to alerts. One of the key features of any...
2015 State of the Cloud Report
Cloud management provider Rightscale has released their second annual State of the Cloud Report, a survey of 930 technical professionals. It is...
Monitoring Oracle Exadata with Precise
Precise provides a rich toolset to monitor Oracle Exadata. Oracle Exadata provides significant improvements in accessing the data in tables quickly...
Tinker, Tailor, Developer, DBA
Tinker, Tailor, Developer, DBA is not intended as a pitch on a slightly less harrowing book or movie than the John Le Carre classic. ...
Backup and Restore of Windows Azure SQL Databases
A growing number of companies have already moved some level of applications and data to the cloud. An equally growing number of companies are still...
Your new job as a DBA
Are you a database administrator who just started a new job? Have you just taken administrator responsibilities for a new business unit’s databases?...
Becoming a Top DBA – Learning Automation in SQL Server
Joseph D'Antoni, Microsoft MVP provides insight and examples from his experience as a consultant. The value you truly bring to your...
Agent vs. Agentless Monitoring
With a unified IT monitoring solution like up.time one of the more popular discusses we have with users is agent versus agentless monitoring. In...
Service Broker Gone Wild: Dealing With sysxmitqueue Bloat
Have you ever been surprised by suddenly finding out that one of your databases has grown way beyond your expectations? Hopefully, this isn’t...
New SQL Suites available now!
Today Idera announces a set of three exciting new bundles in addition to its existing popular SQL Management Suite (formerly called SQL Suite)....
Team DBA and Collaboration
In previous blog posts I have explored the relevance of the DBA position itself in business and the unique ways that SQL Server DBAs tend to...
Converting A List of Identifiers into SQL Statements
If I had a nickel for every time someone gave me a list of identifiers and asked me to pull a result set for them I would be a very wealthy man....
Integrating Data from Multiple Sources: Making Sense of Conformable Data – by David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity
This is the third post in this series. Read the previous post. In my last post, the discussion focused on the ability to infer metadata about...
Resurrection of SQL with Big Data and Hadoop
Did you really think that SQL was going away? Attend this session to learn how SQL is a vital part of the next generation of data environments. Find...
The Top Productivity Solution for DBAs
Why has Monster Energy drink become standard operating equipment for DBAs? Join us for a hard-hitting look at the state-of-the-union for DBAs, what...
Managing Database Security and Compliance
When managing database security and compliance, the DBA can't take a chance on anything falling through the cracks. In this session, you'll...