What is Preventative Database Maintenance?
Preventive database maintenance refers to critical tasks which are time and resource consuming, but essential for the health of your system, which includes both index rebuilds and database consistency verification. The purpose of a successful preventive database maintenance schedule is ...
Advantages of Remote Database Management
Remote Database Management offers enterprise class support to entrepreneurs operating small businesses that know how important information is in our digital age. It is necessary to take the required steps to make sure their businesses have a reliable database. In ...
What is Database Mirroring?
Database mirroring is a configuration where two or three database servers are located, run on separate computers, and cooperate to keep copies of the database and log file of transactions. Both the primary server and the mirror server keep a ...
Do you know the state of your Database Health?
Whether your company runs on Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, MySQL, IBM Informix, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, your database is a complex machine that relies on maintenance to function well. A health check is essential to identify problematic sections so ...
What is a Relational Database Management System?
A relational database is based on the relational model of data, which organizes data into one or more tables of rows and columns, with a unique key for each row. Generally, each entity type described in a database has its ...
Personal Data VS Sensitive Data and the GDPR?
Now that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is in effect, you’ve probably heard how the GDPR defines personal data and that it includes a sub-category of sensitive personal data, which comes with its own requirements. If you haven’t, this ...
Benefits of Outsourcing Database Administration
If you are looking for supplemental expertise for the maintenance and support of operational databases, then remote database administration (or database outsourcing) may be what you are looking for, especially outside of normal business hours (24x7). A remote database service ...
How To Increase Database Efficiency
The overall performance of a database depends largely on its efficiency. Many factors can affect efficiency, including how indexes are used, how queries are structured, and how data is modeled. Consequently, making small tweaks to any of these elements can ...
The Goals of Data Governance
In our previous blog post, we discussed data governance and when it is needed (or not). Today, we’ re going to delve in deeper on the goals of data governance. Data Governance Goals Every structured system helps us organize ...
What is Data Governance? How Will it Help?
Data governance is the management of the availability, integrity, usability, and security of the data used in a company. A good governance program includes a set of defined procedures and a plan to execute those procedures. The initial step in ...
