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What are the most critical performance tuning checks for MySQL?
MySQL is the most popular and influential open-source relational database. As applications become more data-dependent, the database application...
How Backups Protect Your Databases From Malware Attacks
The daily responsibilities of a DBA make it an extremely challenging and critical role in a company’s IT department. The importance of an...
Why and How to Implement Galera Cluster for MySQL
There are three types of replication that people in the MySQL and MariaDB Server world care about: asynchronous (the default), semi-synchronous, and...
Finding the Right Place in the Cloud for Your MySQL Databases
Here’s the scenario. You’re a DBA at a medium-sized company that has serious growth aspirations. You are one of the team members...
Which top metrics should you monitor for MySQL databases?
As tables increase in size and more and more users come online, it becomes necessary to finetune the database server from time to time. The secret...
Minimizing the Stress of Migrating MySQL to the Cloud
One of the tasks that a database team needs to be prepared to perform is a MySQL migration. In the deep, dark past of the early 21st Century, this...
How to become a database administrator for MySQL
You are reading this because you think that becoming a database administrator may be the right career path for you. Database administrators are...
Why You Should Choose MySQL as Your Database Platform
The tremendous amount of data that businesses need to assimilate is increasing daily. Information streams from the Internet of Things (IoT),...
MySQL Security Basics
Full security requires security of the network, hosts, databases, and applications. Most of these are the same, regardless of which database vendor...
What are MySQL Database Engines?
If you’re new to MySQL, you’ve probably run into a term you haven’t seen before: Database engines. Database engines (also called...
Using MySQL SHOW Commands for Performance Monitoring
MySQL SHOW Commands Different database vendors provide different ways of querying the engine to determine status, sessions, configuration, and other...
Announcing the General Availability of DB PowerStudio 17.0.4
We are excited to announce the release of DB PowerStudio version 17.0.4 with improvements in the following areas. New Platform Support We have...
Problem Queries are Killing Your Database Performance
Tuning database performance is a complicated task that can be a thorn in the side of the database team. There are many interconnected components and...
The Advantages of Automating Your MySQL Backups
Performing valid backups of their databases is one of the most important tasks for MySQL DBAs. A typical DBA spends the day maintaining databases...
Fix Problems Proactively with SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL
In the conclusion of our blog series, Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL, we explore features of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL that...
Monitoring MySQL and MariaDB Servers
In week 5 of our Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL blog series, we detail MySQL and MariaDB monitoring features with SQL Diagnostic...
Before You Stop Using MySQL, Read This
An organization’s databases contain information that is essential for its survival. This may encompass sensitive customer data, employee...
Understand Database Performance Trends
Next in our Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL blog series, we discuss monitoring and understanding performance trends using visual...
Optimize Your MySQL Systems with Focused Monitoring
The working life of a DBA is often centered on optimizing their systems to provide users with the best performance. There are many aspects of a...
Find, Monitor, and Analyze Problematic SQL Queries – SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL
In week 3 of our series, Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL, we discuss how to identify and analyze problematic SQL queries using SQL...
Agentless Monitoring and Cloud Readiness with SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL
Welcome back to our blog series, Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL. Last week, we discussed some of the challenges associated with MySQL...
Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL
Welcome to our new blog series Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL. This series will discuss the features of SQL Diagnostic Manager for...
Aqua Data Studio – Working with Complex Data Environments Can Be A Challenge.
Companies are expanding their systems beyond relational databases to incorporate big data and cloud deployments, creating hybrid configurations....