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Aqua Data Studio & Snowflake Integration Explained
Perhaps owing to its popularity, there are a number of Snowflake integrations geared towards optimizing organization's use of the platform....
Struggling With Big Data Analytics in the Healthcare Industry
Enterprises in many diverse fields are trying to make sense of the possibilities afforded by big data analytics. Taking advantage of the insights...
How Good Do You Feel About Your SLAs?
A service level agreement (SLA) is an important component of a service contract between a provider and its customer. It defines measurable aspects...
Object Magic (Part 1)
In PowerShell, most data are represented as PSObjects, a specific object “wrapper” added by PowerShell. To get to this specific wrapper,...
What do customers have to say about SQL Doctor?
Are you curious about who the customers of SQL Doctor are in terms of the type of organization, industry, and country? And are you...
Who Uses Aqua Data Studio and What Are its Benefits?
Aqua Data Studio is a tool for developers and administrators that offers a platform for data management and analytics across any type of cloud,...
What are the most critical performance tuning checks for MySQL?
MySQL is the most popular and influential open-source relational database. As applications become more data-dependent, the database application...
You Need to Modernize Your Legacy Monitoring Tools
Computer networks have always been one of the most complicated components of an enterprise’s IT environment. They are comprised of numerous...
Encrypting Text (Part 2)
This is the second part of our text encryption/decryption series. In the first part you learned how you can safely encrypt text on a machine. Now...
What are five common misconceptions about cloud migration?
The popularity of cloud platforms continues to grow for a variety of reasons. For example, it allows organizations to pay only for the computing...
Finding All of Your Assets After a Cloud Migration
If your company is like the majority of others out there, they are likely to be interested in taking advantage of the cloud for at least some of...
Encrypting Text (Part 1)
Let’s take a look at a safe way of encrypting text on a computer. The below Protect-Text function takes any text and encrypts it...
How Backups Protect Your Databases From Malware Attacks
The daily responsibilities of a DBA make it an extremely challenging and critical role in a company’s IT department. The importance of an...
What do customers have to say about SQL Safe Backup?
Are you curious about who the customers of SQL Safe Backup are in terms of the type of organization, industry, and country? And are you...
Are You Ready for SQL Server 2008 End of Support?
Organizations and individuals who use Microsoft SQL Server 2008 have to make a choice. Extended support of the database platform ended as of July 9,...
Creating NT4 Password Hashes
Internally, Active Directory stores all passwords as so-called NTLM Hashes. There are a number of security-analysis tools that can read and dump...
The Challenge of Monitoring Hybrid Cloud Solutions
There is a major emphasis among businesses across all sectors of commerce and industry to take advantage of cloud computing. The cloud promises many...
How do databases on cloud virtual machines compare to managed cloud databases?
You will need to make a couple of significant decisions right off the bat if you want to move your SQL Server database to the cloud. First of all,...
How Data Analytics Can Lead to Creative Solutions
Many modern businesses are essentially drowning in a sea of data. The explosive growth in the sheer volume of information which an organization must...
Simple PowerShell Chat
Here’s a fun PowerShell script that you can use to create a simple multi-channel chat room. All you need is a network share where everyone has...
IDERA Named 2019 Most Promising Solution Provider for Microsoft by CIOReview Magazine
We are proud to announce that CIOReview Magazine recognized IDERA as being a Top 50 Solution Provider for Microsoft, and a Top 10 Solution Provider...
Why and How to Implement Galera Cluster for MySQL
There are three types of replication that people in the MySQL and MariaDB Server world care about: asynchronous (the default), semi-synchronous, and...
Finding the Right Place in the Cloud for Your MySQL Databases
Here’s the scenario. You’re a DBA at a medium-sized company that has serious growth aspirations. You are one of the team members...