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Empowering Law Firms: How SQL Server and Idera Tools Safeguard Legal Data
Improve MySQL Database Security with Performance Monitoring Tools
Improving MySQL database security should be a priority for data-driven organizations using MySQL databases. Tracking database performance with a...
What Is Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)?
Bare metal to cloud hosted virtual machines Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is a four-letter word in every sense, well beyond simply the number of...
Data Visualization Results in More Powerful Presentations
For data-driven organizations, improving data visualization has many potential benefits. It can be challenging for data-driven organizations to make...
What Is Data Lake Management?
Through better data lake management, organizations can prevent highly disorganized data lakes from becoming data swamps. Data lakes offer...
Business Reasons to Use a Hybrid Cloud Solution
Organizations are finding that the most effective way to use public cloud resources is by employing a hybrid cloud model. Team productivity and...
Top Four Benefits of Consolidating Relational Database Monitoring Tools
Increasingly, organizations are evaluating the benefits of consolidating relational database monitoring tools. When organizations grow, their...
Improve ETL Performance by Disabling Non-clustered Indexes
Perhaps you just read the title and thought, “Disable indexes…say what?” Stay with me here, and I'll show you how this...
Increasing MySQL Database Developer Productivity
MySQL database teams play an important role as the caretakers of enterprise data resources. In the modern data-centric business world, the success...
Announcing Precise 10.3 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the release of Precise 10.3, the company’s application performance monitoring platform. Precise helps IT...
Top Four Benefits of Software Vendor Consolidation for Database Tools
For data-driven organizations, the benefits of software vendor consolidation for database tools can provide a competitive edge. Vendor...
What Is Server Performance Monitoring?
Server performance monitoring is a practice designed to maintain high levels of database performance and availability. It allows organizations...
How to migrate from old versions of InterBase?
I got a question this week about how to migrate from an old version of InterBase to the latest version, so I thought I would share a few tips and...
The Benefits of What-If Analysis for Database Performance Management
For data-driven organizations, there are many benefits of what-if analysis to take advantage of. A method of evaluating the outcome of certain...
The Top Five Features of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL DBAs
The server performance monitoring tool SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL features a host of capabilities to empower database administrators (DBAs)....
SQL Diagnostic Manager 11.0 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 11.0. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
Native v Hybrid v WebApp
I recently posted on my Embarcadero Blog about the 3 main types of mobile applications that developers write. Native apps, web-based mobile apps,...
How Infrastructure Monitoring Can Improve Security and Performance
The security and performance of a computing environment can be improved by implementing infrastructure monitoring. Insights produced by a robust...
Why It’s Important to Optimize SQL Queries
In the previous tip we introduced the PowerShell “SmbShare” module which comes with Windows and enables you to manage file shares. We looked at the...
Columnstore Index for SQL Server
Introduction When we talk about SQL Server indexes, we are usually discussing the rowstore clustered or non-clustered index. However, along with...
How to Effectively Reduce SQL Server Database Index Fragmentation
SQL Server database index fragmentation is a problem faced by many database administrators (DBAs). It is an issue that can seriously impact database...
The Benefits of Using an IDE for Database Developers
Diversified database platforms are the norm in modern computing environments. The demands of productively using enterprise data resources have made...
The Top Five Features of SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server
In the previous tip we introduced the PowerShell “SmbShare” module which comes with Windows and enables you to manage file shares. We looked at the...
Filtered Indexes and Performance
Introduction During a recent SQL Server Performance Tuning consultation, I was asked a fascinating question by a Senior DBA working with me from the...
Being a Proactive DBA Makes You More Productive
A career as a database administrator (DBA) should appeal to individuals interested in a job that involves a diverse range of duties and technical...
The Most Surprising SQL Antipattern We Use
Do you like hammering nails with screwdrivers? Me neither, but all too often we take this kind of approach when writing our SQL queries. We use the...
Why Should You Care About Crypto Mining on Your SQL Servers?
Many different types of malware are floating around out there. Some of the variants are purely destructive and are designed to simply delete data....
Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Part 3
In the previous tip we introduced the PowerShell “SmbShare” module which comes with Windows and enables you to manage file shares. We looked at the...
Troubleshooting Over-Indexing for Performance
Introduction I have now warned several times against the mindset that suggests indexing is a silver bullet for SQL Server performance. In the...
The Most Important Metrics for Monitoring MySQL Databases
In the previous tip we introduced the PowerShell “SmbShare” module which comes with Windows and enables you to manage file shares. We looked at the...
Troubleshooting Under-Indexing for Performance
In the previous tip we introduced the PowerShell “SmbShare” module which comes with Windows and enables you to manage file shares. We looked at the...