Don't Be Afraid of Database Preventive Maintenance
The single most common problem I see when performing database health checks is a lack of preventive maintenance. There are a few prevalent reasons for this: - DBMS’ are frequently maintained by people other than experienced DBAs. This leads to ...
What You Don't Know About Your Database Can Hurt You
Jeff Garbus, 30-year IT veteran and author of over a dozen books on database technologies, has been a database consultant for most of his career. He recently had dinner with a CTO-friend who has brought Jeff with him to multiple ...
How to Burn Out your DBA
Are you trying to get rid of your DBA – or DBA team? Want to make a reputation for your IT shop that will make recruitment borderline impossible? Simply want to make somebody’s life miserable? Then this article is for ...
Database Performance for Executives
We received a call recently from a business partner who told us, in essence, “We have a customer, a large hospital, who complained of database performance issues. We spent $3M of their money upgrading their systems, and the performance is ...
Database Administration - Architecting Effective Solutions
Business Intelligence and technical efficiencies are paving the way for industries to grow at an unprecedented rate. But with the swift growth, companies often don’t have a workforce who can handle scalability problems, primarily, the expansion of their database and ...
How to Protect Yourself From the Equifax Breach
Cybersecurity is not just an issue that big companies need to worry about. Considering that every single one of us leaves behind such a huge digital footprint, we should pay attention to how it affects us as individuals. The truth ...
Security Breach! What to Do Next.
It’s 2017, and we’re used to technology progressing at the speed of light. When we get used to one system, the next one comes along. Along with this reality, we’ve all experienced either a computer virus, a crashed system, or ...
What Causes Slow Data Performance?
Most of us grew up without a thought about slow data performance. Do you remember growing up with no computers? We’d have fun outside with our friends, or stay inside and read books. Our parents saved information in phone books, ...
The Real Costs of a Cybersecurity Breach
Raise your hands if you’ve ever waited to do something until the last minute. While that type of blasé attitude is great for fun vacation stories, it doesn’t work as well if you’re running a business, where cybersecurity breach is ...
What's in Store for Data Storage?
Remember how we used to save data in diskettes? We felt so modern carrying our homework in a floppy disk instead of in a notebook. Innovation had arrived. Today, those gadgets look as out of place as a Rolodex or ...
