As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

IDC predicts that big data is growing at an annual rate of 60% for structured and unstructured data. Businesses need to do something with all that data, and traditionally databases have been the ...

Improving performance, increasing data security, ensuring high availability—each of these efforts are what today’s enterprises must accomplish to maintain a competitive edge. Powerful, secure ...

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Coverage of Google’s sold-out annual cloud conference in San Francisco, as the search giant looks to extend its reach and build its momentum in the cloud. by Tom Krazit on Apr 10, 2019 at 9:00 am ...

The announcements add built-in durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and a new bring-your-own-media option for Amazon RDS for SQL Server. AWS said the enhancements extend its strategy of ...