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RATs Can be a Security Threat to Your SQL Servers
Before you click away, let me assure you that this post is not about rodents chewing on power cords or networking cables. RATs is an acronym for...
Where do you start with SQL Server performance tuning?
Performance tuning is the methodology of systematically identifying bottlenecks in applications, and improving performance. There are some places to...
Cloud Day 2—High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
One of my favorite topics in cloud computing is disaster recovery. A decade ago, if you wanted to have true disaster recovery across multiple...
Why You Should Care about Database Index Fragmentation
Providing smoothly running systems that quickly respond to user queries keeps both customers and management happy. All but the most inexperienced...
How did a large enterprise, banking company in the USA achieve better system uptime and usability?
Mizuho Securities is a large enterprise banking company in the USA. They have 100 to 499 SQL Server databases in their environment. They suffered...
How did a medium enterprise healthcare company in the USA proactively troubleshoot SQL Server issues?
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, Inc. is a medium enterprise healthcare company in Dallas, Texas, USA. They have 10 to 24 SQL Server databases in...
Geek Sync | Improving Query Performance in Azure SQL Database
Moving to Azure SQL can help with many things, including faster scalability and easier disaster recovery strategy implementation. Unfortunately, one...
Keeping Users Happy with High-Performance Databases
Without users, databases are rather abstract constructs that, it can be argued, have no real purpose. It is certainly an interesting technical...
How can you improve the performance, disaster recovery, and security of SQL Server?
SQL Doctor tunes SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments -...
Prepare for the Worst, Hope for the Best
If you have spent any time in the IT world, you probably know that things do not always go according to plan. In fact, at times it seems that...
Cloud Day 2–Understanding Cloud Storage
Welcome to the Cloud Day 2—in this series you will learn about some slightly more advanced topics in the public cloud. We’re going to go...
How did an IT consulting firm save time and money on performance fine tuning for SQL Server?
When companies are looking for a SQL Expert to help with performance challenges, they turn to Oregon-based consulting firm Lake IT for experienced...
Don’t Fear the Robot Database Administrators
Nightmares about automation can conjure up images of shiny robots toiling away tirelessly without ever making an error or requiring a break. At...
How did a healthcare company in South Africa fix a slow and erratic SQL Server?
An IT company that deals with the healthcare industry in South Africa develop a variety of software products, which cover a wide range of...
Why You Should Consolidate Your SQL Server Environment
Microsoft’s SQL Server is one of the most widely-used relational database solutions on the planet. Due to its popularity, there are numerous...
How are you tuning the performance of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server?
SQL Doctor diagnoses and provides the cure for what ails SQL Server on premise, in the cloud, and as a managed cloud database. Collect performance...
How to Handle Unexpected Issues During Cloud Migration
A common issue that affects many areas of the IT world is that things often do not go as smoothly as anticipated. Despite the best efforts that...
Are You Willing to Pay the Price of Non-Compliance?
Data privacy is a hot topic in the world of information technology and promises to remain so for the foreseeable future. As the shift continues to a...
Installing Precise in an AWS or Azure environment
Precise provides support for AWS and Azure. We have provided support for AWS and Azure since Precise 9.9. (June 2018) The Precise framework...
The Problem of Data Breaches Shows No Signs of Slowing Down
An unfortunate and common problem that is encountered just about everywhere in the world is the theft of valuable items from their owners by...
Welcome to the SQL Server Query Store
The current situation we all face with the COVID-19 pandemic has made it difficult or impossible for many individuals to visit their favorite local...
You Need A Reliable Strategy for Protecting Data Resources
Today’s database administrator (DBA) has many responsibilities related to protecting and maintaining access to enterprise data resources....
Who is Responsible and Accountable for a Data Breach?
One of the benefits of forming a corporation is that it provides a level of protection for the individuals who are making decisions regarding the...
Do You Know How Many SQL Servers You Have?
It’s a pretty straightforward question that many database teams may have difficulty answering. For multiple reasons, it may become necessary...
Lessons Learned From 3 Years in the Trenches with AWS
Since the time of our founding, IDERA has been using Amazon Web Services (AWS). It was critical to us to use cloud technologies to build our...
What Are the Risks of Paying for Ransomware?
Ransomware is a particularly nasty type of malware that is being deployed with increased frequency over the past several months. In a ransomware...
Why DBAs Need to Look for Trouble
In some professions, individuals are expected to wait patiently until called upon to perform their functions. There are no opportunities for people...
Making Time Using Temporal Data
SQL is the first programming language with temporal data types. The SQL-92 standard added temporal data to the language, acknowledging most of what...
How to Secure Your SQL Servers from Internal Threats
The tremendous value of enterprise data resources makes them an inviting target for malicious actors. Losing sensitive financial or personal data...