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Using the Right Tools to Fulfill Service Level Agreements
Service level agreements (SLAs) are commonly used to document customer expectations when entering into a contract with an information technology (IT) vendor. A well-designed SLA should be designed to protect both parties by eliminating any ambiguity concerning the...
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 tool like SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL can be an important component of an overall database security strategy. ...
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 characters in the acronym to many data professionals, particularly those in an operational database administrator (DBA)...
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 productive use of their vast information resources. Big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) have exponentially...
What Is Data Lake Management?
Through better data lake management, organizations can prevent highly disorganized data lakes from becoming data swamps. Data lakes offer organizations a methodology for effectively handling big data resources. The information contained in the data lake is...
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 efficiency can be impacted by the challenges of supporting systems in multiple locations. Many of IDERA’s database 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 technological capabilities and assets often grow with them. Because of this and data’s evolving prominence in the...
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 isn't as nutty as it seems. Admittedly, one of the finest qualities a database professional can have is the quest for...
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 or failure of an organization is predicated on their productive and innovative use of the information streams available...
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 professionals improve the end-to-end performance monitoring of databases and applications, and recommend corrective actions....
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 consolidation is the process of reducing the number of vendors required to supply the materials required to fulfill business...
What Is Server Performance Monitoring?
Server performance monitoring is a practice designed to maintain high levels of database performance and availability. It allows organizations to assess a server’s current state and determine what actions, if any, need to be taken to improve system...
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 hints on how to move data forward from old versions. InterBase On Disk Structure Before we start, it is important to know...
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 actions and inputs, what-if analysis helps better inform the decision-making process. With what-if analysis, organizations...
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). The open source nature of MySQL combined with its impressive features and functionality has made it a very popular...
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 Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the Idera Website. What’s New in Diagnostic Manager 11.0?...
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, and hybrid apps, and highlighted that you can achieve the benefits of both Hybrid development with a single code base to...
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 monitoring tool can alert you to the resource issues that impact performance. The same information can also be used to...
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 “SmbShare” noun which represents local folders that you share on a network. Today we’re looking at the “SbmMapping”...
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 rowstore indexes, SQL Server has columnstore indexes as well. In today’s blog post, we will be discussing the columnstore...