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How to Maintain Security Compliance to Prevent a Costly Breach
As businesses and government organizations shift a growing amount of their operations online, data security has become an increasingly important...
Visually compare data in MySQL
As with any database, there are many ways to compare the data within a MySQL database. We can compare data for: Accuracy: If we entered the data...
Learn more about database migrations
Many information technology professionals may not recognize it, but the bulk of their work has been and continues to be nothing more than database...
Monitor top metrics in MySQL databases
How MySQL databases perform can affect your organization. For example, if your site takes too long to load or has too many server errors, it can...
Tips for data warehouses and other extensive databases
Whether on-premises or in the cloud, organizations often ask database administrators to create and manage optimal database designs for data...
DBTA 100 2023: The Companies That Matter Most in Data
The need to balance data safety with new data initiatives, deliver business value, and change company culture around data tops this year’s list of...
Become a SQL Server Management Studio Hero
The world is full of exciting challenges, and we are constantly running daily, chasing our dreams. Especially in the software ecosystem, it is not...
Synchronize MySQL data
Lost your work because you forgot to back it up? Having your database developers do a mountain of work in a short time frame is not the best way to...
Work with and support multiple database platforms
In the ever-changing world of technology, we sometimes inherit environments with multiple database platforms and must continue to manage them. This...
Test-Driving PowerShellGet Version 3
PowerShellGet is a module and contains important cmdlets such as Install-Module, so this module is really the prerequisite for downloading and...
How did the database administrator role change in 2022?
Organizations are experiencing the effects of rapid technological advancement across every sector and industry, causing them to rely on secure and...
SpeculationControl: Use PowerShell to Check for Risks
Microsoft released a module a couple of years ago (updated 3 weeks ago) that you can use to identify whether your hardware is vulnerable against...
Getting Parent Culture
Most of the time, localized resources are tagged with a culture name such as “en-us” or “de-de”. If you’d like to know what such an ID stands for,...
Design data intensive cloud native applications
The cloud is transforming the way modern-day applications are being designed. Data is at the center of multiple challenges while architecting...
Dealing with the Complexities of Regulatory Compliance
Why is Data Privacy Important? An incredible amount of digital information is generated daily, with an estimated 1.7 MB of data being created every...
Invoke-RestMethod Cancellation Issues
Both Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod are simple-to-use cmdlets to download information from the web. For example, this simple code can query...
Key points to remember while using SQLyog
SQLyog is a powerful MySQL development and administration solution, trusted by 2.5 million users around the world. With SQLyog, organizations have a...
Two Type Casts (and one bug)
To explicitly convert one data type to another, PowerShell offers two ways: PS> [int]5.6 6 PS> 5.6 -as [int] 6 While both approaches yield identical...
Announcing General Availability of DB PowerStudio (DBPS) version 18.4
We are pleased to announce the general availability of DB PowerStudio version 18.4! IDERA’s DB PowerStudio provides a powerful cross-platform...
Fundamentals of database people and DevOps
DevOps is a software delivery philosophy that focuses on delivering quality faster. The environment of everyone is different. But we can translate...
Mounting ISO Files
In our previous tip we showed how you can easily turn local folders into ISO file images. Today, we look at how you can mount (and dismount) your...
Monitor MySQL managed cloud databases with ease
Once upon a time, organizations hosted their database servers on-premises. Later, they moved to data centers, and now we often find the same servers...
Creating ISO Files
PowerShell can turn regular folders into ISO files. ISO files are binary files that can be mounted and then behave like a read-only CD-ROM drive. In...