As a database administrator, monitoring database systems for performance, corruption, and data issues is an ongoing task. It is also an overwhelming...

Development is a big undertaking and most of the time it focuses on making sure all the features are in place and working. Once this is done, tuning...

One can improve how secure databases are. However, that often degrades how well the database performs. The cost increases to improve database...

Stricter governmental and industry regulation coupled with the need for improving how secure the sensitive corporate data is has driven up the need...

It is easy and all too common to see the auditing team as adversaries. All the information they want takes time to gather. All the rules and...

In the current IT landscape, we face meeting an ever-increasing number of laws, regulations, and industry standards. The good news is that most of...

Not protecting physical backups You should think about the value of the data or the consequences of it getting into the wrong hands since a full...

To understand how malicious actors can infiltrate SQL Server is the key to understanding how to prevent intrusions. The consequences for inadequate...

There are several examples where data theft has brought organizations to a halt or resulted in a bad press that will leave a tarnished image. For...

Today, business is about data. Database systems and the elements they store are the most valuable assets in any enterprise. Not only are business...

Not understanding recovery needs The whole point of creating backups is to retrieve data in case data is lost or there is a failure. But to set up...

Database administrators need to handle all facets of managing Microsoft SQL Server ranging from installation and patching to creating databases to...

SQL Diagnostic Manager is a robust performance monitoring, alerting and diagnostics solution for SQL Server. It proactively notifies of health,...

Werner Enterprises is a transportation and logistics leader with more than 8,000 trucks, 24,000 trailers and nearly 13,000 employees. Today, 65...

Data modeling tools should be competent at the basics of database modeling. They should be able to create logical and physical data models,...

Keep sensitive and mission-critical data safe by performing regular backups of all important databases. Identify any non-backed up databases....

To find the key points of how SQL Workload Analysis can help you, look for the ducks  throughout this blog post!   What Is SQL Workload...

Cardinality is a term from set theory that deals with the size of a set. Data cardinality can affect query plans and performance. Minimize the...

Every database administrator hates to wake up at midnight just to learn there is an emergency with their database. Sometimes, even though their...

For over three decades, organizations have relied on data warehouses to support business information consumers’ needs for descriptive analytics to...

SQL Server resellers often send true-up forms to their customers more frequently than Microsoft requires. Some customers receive them every month....