DBAs understand how critical and important security is but due to other administration priorities, it can often take a back seat. When working...
Top 3 Security Concepts Any DBA Must Know
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3 Tips for Technical Presentation That Every Developer Must Know
Over the past decade, I have developed and given many technical presentations that range from being cultural, based on depth of audience or on...
Top 2 Errors When Working with Datetime Conversions
Working on universal applications has its own challenges. Often I have seen developers resort to unwanted conversions inside the database based on...
SQL Safe and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
With the release of version 7.4 in August, SQL Safe added AlwaysOn Availability Group support by taking into account the preferred replica when...
Adhoc Database Monitoring Made Easy
There are times when you need to get adhoc monitoring information from your databases. Well, now you can! with Embarcadero's DBArtisan Analyst...
Altering wait categories in SQL Diagnostic Manager
SQL Diagnostic Manager ships with built-in categorization of wait types which are encountered in monitoring. These categories are used on both the...
Did you choose to be a DBA?
We have had this survey question and a few others on the community for a few months and thought we would share some of the results. This was a brief...
Cloud phenomnenon- 3 things that make it different from on premise
Cloud – the new buzz word in the IT industry is just like the .com days in my humble opinion. Organizations have been doing the whole...
Top 4 Startup Parameters DBAs Must Know
Introduction Working on a server is always something DBAs cherish. With every environment that they monitor, they want to know how applications can...
Black Friday Sale – Flat 30% OFF on all products
Update: Thank you all for making this campaign a huge success. We are extending this offer till Dec 1st, 23:59 PST. Many corporate users requested...
Internals of Statistics That You Were Not Aware Of
As a developer statistics is one of the important things we need to know while doing SQL Server query performance tuning exercise. Let us try to...
3 More Reasons SQL Server Service is Not Responding
NOTE: This content has been updated and expanded in a whitepaper: 7 Reasons Your SQL Server Service Won't Start, by Pinal Dave ---------- After...
SQL Server Data Modeling Made Easy
Microsoft SQL Server is slowly beginning to become the preferred platform for most organization big and small. So it would make sense in building...
Engaging the Business Users in Enterprise Semantics – by David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity, Inc.
This is the fifth in a series of six posts on metadata collaboration from David Loshin. Read the previous post and the next post in the...
Collaboration Principles and Universal Data Models – By Len Silverston, Universal Data Models, LLC
Once upon a time, there were four expert data modelers engaged on an enterprise data modeling effort. There was also an additional expert data...
PostgreSQL Administration Made Easy
PostgreSQL let's face it! is the World's most advanced Open Source Database. It has been replacing many proprietary database systems out...
2 Things to Know About When Using Snapshot Isolation
SQL Server 2005 version introduced the concept of Snapshot isolation setting. It is one of those hidden gems inside SQL Server which is under...
SMO – SQL Server Management Objects
SMO stands for Shared Management Objects. It is a SQL administration API used to get meta data information from SQL Server. You may ask “Why? I can...
MongoDB – Data Modeling Primer
We all know and have been hearing about NoSQL systems since the last year or so! 2014 is slated to be the year of NoSQL DB Platforms and Big Data...
Tips Database Developers Must Know Reading Query Plans
If you are a developer, you might have heard this from your DBA – “That query plan has some problems”. This blog would help you in understanding...
Pinging via IPv4
All PowerShell versions You can use ping.exe just like any other command inside PowerShell scripts. By adding “-4” to the command line,...
The 3Vs may require NoSQL, but data modeling is still required – by Rob Loranger
We live in an exciting time where technology is entering our lives in areas that many of us never expected. For example, at home, once unintelligent...
Knowing your Storage Basics- 2 Life Lessions for a DBA
IF_THEN_ELSE_RapidSQL
This week I’ll take a look at IF-THEN-ELSE-ELSEIF syntax. Next blog I’ll take a look at the similar CASE syntax and compare/contrast the...