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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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
Cloud Day 2—High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
One of my favorite topics in cloud computing is disaster recovery. A decade ago, if you wanted to have true disaster recovery across multiple...
How did a large enterprise, banking company in the USA achieve better system uptime and usability?
Mizuho Securities is a large enterprise banking company in the USA. They have 100 to 499 SQL Server databases in their environment. They suffered...
How are you tuning SQL Server in the hybrid cloud?
As organizations migrate their databases to the cloud, database administrators need to manage databases on-premise and in the cloud with existing...
How did a medium enterprise healthcare company in the USA proactively troubleshoot SQL Server issues?
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas, Inc. is a medium enterprise healthcare company in Dallas, Texas, USA. They have 10 to 24 SQL Server databases in...
How can you improve the performance, disaster recovery, and security of SQL Server?
SQL Doctor tunes SQL Server performance, security, and disaster recovery via expert recommendations in physical, virtual, and cloud environments -...
How did an IT consulting firm save time and money on performance fine tuning for SQL Server?
When companies are looking for a SQL Expert to help with performance challenges, they turn to Oregon-based consulting firm Lake IT for experienced...
How did a healthcare company in South Africa fix a slow and erratic SQL Server?
An IT company that deals with the healthcare industry in South Africa develop a variety of software products, which cover a wide range of...
What do IDERA’s customers have to say about SQL Doctor?
Are you curious about who the customers of SQL Doctor are in terms of the organization, industry, and country? What is the size and the deployment...
How are you tuning the performance of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Amazon RDS for SQL Server?
SQL Doctor diagnoses and provides the cure for what ails SQL Server on premise, in the cloud, and as a managed cloud database. Collect performance...
Announcing the Release of SQL Defrag Manager 3.7
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Defrag Manager 3.7 SQL Defrag Manager is an industry leading automated performance solution that...
Making Time Using Temporal Data
SQL is the first programming language with temporal data types. The SQL-92 standard added temporal data to the language, acknowledging most of what...
Normalization Heuristics
Heuristics and normalization are the goals of all databases. Heuristics refers to a trial-and-error method of problem-solving used when an...
All Skewed Up
Data can be skewed by its nature. How can you tell if you have skewed data in your database? And if you do, how do you handle it when writing...
Relational Division
Dr. Codd’s original relational algebra had eight basic operations. Since relational database management systems are based on set theory, the...
Help – I’ve inherited yet another database!
With many companies trying to do more with less, it’s not uncommon for a database administrator (DBA) to find out they’ve just been...
SQL Diagnostic Manager 10.6 General Availability
We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager 10.6. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera...
Agile + Data Modeling = Greater Success
Let me start by saying that agile development is fundamentally sound and has serious merit. In may in fact be the best development methodology there...