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Empowering Law Firms: How SQL Server and Idera Tools Safeguard Legal Data
How to analyze the health of SQL Server database indexes
To keep databases running smoothly, it is important to evaluate the properties and performance statistics of indexes of databases. For this purpose,...
Announcing General Availability of SQL Admin ToolSet 1.9.5
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Admin Toolset 1.9.5. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA...
How to Improve Your MySQL Database Performance
Tips for Improving Your MySQL Database Performance
MySQL is used by many businesses as the database backend for online stores and e-commerce sites. When deployed in this way, the performance of the...
How to ensure that SQL Server databases are backed up on a regular basis
Keep sensitive and mission-critical data safe by performing regular backups of all important databases. Identify any non-backed up databases....
Improving Query Performance in Your Azure SQL Databases
Recent years have seen many organizations migrate part or all of their SQL Server environments to public cloud providers. Moving databases to the...
Cloud Day 2—Understanding Your Options in Platform as a Service Databases
If you have spent any time reading marketing material from cloud vendors, you will know that there is a big push to move your workloads to platform...
Geek Sync | How to Select the Appropriate Approach to Data Governance
There are three distinct approaches organizations can follow to implement Data Governance. There is the command-and-control approach, the...
How to migrate SQL Server databases and data files
Do you need to: Move databases from one instance to another (for example, to move a performance-intensive database to a faster hard drive to speed...
Do You Know the Real Costs of Regulatory Noncompliance?
Compliance or noncompliance, that is the question. Is it an economically sound strategy to spend the necessary resources to remain compliant with...
The Challenge of Variable Seasonal Database Usage
If the past year has taught us anything, it is that we can never know what’s coming next. Just to survive, we may need to reevaluate our...
How to ensure that SQL Server databases do not have fragmented indexes
Maintain the performance of databases by efficiently retrieving ordered data by resolving the fragmentation of the indexes. View the fragmentation...
Oracle 19.8 Patch for AIX is now supported by Precise 10.2
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...
Protect Your SQL Servers with Always Encrypted
The information stored in corporate databases needs to be protected in multiple ways. Database backups are necessary to recover from a physical or...
How to monitor the health of SQL Server database instances
Determine the health of instances by collecting real-time statistics. Such statistics include backup devices, databases, error logs, locks, logins,...
Geek Sync | Practical PowerShell For The Busy DBA
Many DBAs don't have time to learn PowerShell. Thankfully, there is an excellent PowerShell library already created specifically for handling...
Cloud Day 2—What Do You Need to Know About Cloud Security?
Cloud security is complex and has several layers to it—first and most important is access to the control plane. The control plane is your...
You Need to Plan a Strategy for SQL Server Backups
Backups are an indispensable component of all computing environments. Creating data backups regularly is considered best practice for everyone from...
How can you tune the performance of SQL Server by analyzing the past to predict the future?
The history of mankind says that we have learned a lot from our past mistakes and improved our future. Similarly, SQL Server performance tuning is...
How to Create a Plan for Regulatory Compliance
Many reasons may make it important for an organization that collects and stores digital information to be concerned with regulatory compliance. Data...
How do you start with performance tuning for Azure SQL Database?
Have you been interested to see how you can baseline performance and improve performance with an Azure SQL Database? Do you want to grasp the secret...
Announcing the Release of SQL Safe Backup 8.7
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Safe Backup 8.7 SQL Safe Backup is the industry leading mission-critical backup and recovery solution...
Announcing the Release of SQL Defrag Manager 3.6
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Defrag Manager 3.6 SQL Defrag Manager is an industry leading automated performance solution that...
How ISV’s Drive Innovation with InterBase
I recently ran a webinar, alongside Mary Kelly, discussing how InterBase ISV’s are innovating faster while improving profitability and return...
The Right Tools Make a DBA More Productive
The work-life of a SQL Server DBA can be unpredictable. One might be called upon to address a performance issue, setup logins, verify the backup...
What are the five essential SQL scripts for SQL Server performance tuning?
Performance tuning is a complex subject and one of the most critical. Every manager wants their server to run faster. And every database...
Migration Links from DelphiCOn 2020
Firstly, thank you to the hundreds of you who joined us for the panel discussion at DelphiCon2020. As promised during that session, here is a...
KB: Selection of PowerShell Resources
Microsoft Windows PowerShell Infographic: Why DBAs Should Learn PowerShell? Whitepaper: The Guide to Learning PowerShell Geek Sync Webcasts: The...
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...