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Dealing with the Complexities of Optimizing Mobile Apps
There is no denying that the life of an application programmer has changed dramatically in the last thirty years. Once upon a time, the application...
Using Pop-up Dialogs that Are Always Visible
In the previous tip we used an old COM technique to display a pop-up box with a built-in timeout. That worked pretty well except that the dialog box...
Database Administrator Versus Security Administrator
In week two of our blog series The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance, we explore the roles of database administrator and...
A Superior Solution to Cross-Platform Database Development
Database developers and database administrators (DBAs) have different but related responsibilities concerning the systems that curate an...
The Advantages of Using SQL Safe Backup with TSM
Backing up the SQL databases for which they are responsible is one of the most important functions of a DBA. While streamlining performance might be...
Use Hash Tables to Make Code Readable
Maybe you stumbled across code like this in the past: $shell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell $value = $shell.Popup('Restart...
Monitoring MySQL and MariaDB Servers
In week 5 of our Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL blog series, we detail MySQL and MariaDB monitoring features with SQL Diagnostic...
Before You Stop Using MySQL, Read This
An organization’s databases contain information that is essential for its survival. This may encompass sensitive customer data, employee...
Increasing Pipeline Speed
The PowerShell pipeline tends to be slow when it is processing a lot of elements. This can take a lot of time: $result = 1..15000 | ForEach-Object {...
July #SQLChat – Let’s Talk About SQL Server 2019!
What’s new in SQL Server 2019? Join IDERA (@Idera_Software) and host Matt Gordon (@sqlatspeed) on July 31 at 11AM CT for a community...
The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance
Welcome to our new blog series, The Tradeoff Between Database Security and Database Performance. This series will cover best practices that will...
Using a Centralized Console Will Make You a Better DBA
Consider the working life of a database administrator (DBA). It is their responsibility to maintain the systems that contain an organization’s...
Detecting Key Presses
It may be useful for PowerShell to know whether a given key is currently pressed. This way, your profile script could, for example, do things during...
Monitoring Can be a Valuable Capacity Planning Tool
The cloud provides numerous examples of new and exciting uses of its powerful and flexible computing resources. There are many advantages afforded...
Understand Database Performance Trends
Next in our Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL blog series, we discuss monitoring and understanding performance trends using visual...
Overriding Out-Default (Part 3)
Advanced PowerShell users often find themselves doing one of three things: They run a previous command and add Get-Member to learn more about the...
What’s New in SQL Compliance Manager 5.6
SQL Compliance Manager 5.6 was released last week Last week we released SQL Compliance Manager 5.6. Along with it are some new and exciting changes...
When was the Last Time You Tested Your DR Plan?
It’s a fairly innocent question that can send a DBA into a bit of a panic. Hopefully, the issue is not over the very existence of a...
DBArtisan Tips, Security, Projects and Visual Query builder
Welcome to the DB PowerStudio Blog. This blog will cover all things about DB PowerStudio. DBArtisan is one part of the suite of tools known as DB...
Overriding Out-Default (Part 2)
When you override Out-Default to do something meaningful, you really want to make sure the old behavior isn’t lost, and instead just something...
Optimize Your MySQL Systems with Focused Monitoring
The working life of a DBA is often centered on optimizing their systems to provide users with the best performance. There are many aspects of a...
Get Prepared for an American GDPR
Business vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com From its definition of a data breach to the size of the punitive fines it has the power to...
Overriding Out-Default (Part 1)
Out-Default is a hidden PowerShell cmdlet that gets called at the end of each command, and outputs results to the console. You can override this...