Database

Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified

12/15/19 Holt-Winters forecasting is a way to model and predict the behavior of a sequence of values over time—a time series. Holt-Winters is one of the most popular forecasting te…

Lockdown: Improving SQL Server Performance for Vendor-Locked Applications

12/13/19 Application vendors support many customers, and they often need to impose some control over variables in order to do so. For example, for me to help someone with the perfo…

Boosting Orion Platform Performance With New Maps, Syslog/Trap Engines – SolarWinds Lab #82 (Part 1)

12/11/19 Want to learn a couple of easy ways to increase performance of your SolarWinds Orion Platform? Of course you do! In this networking-focused part one of our year-end perfor…

When “Good Enough” Is Costing You Money

12/11/19 In 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security carried out covert tests on TSA Security at major airports to see how successful they would be at detecting potentially d…

VividCortex is Joining SolarWinds!

12/11/19 We’re excited to share that VividCortex is now part of the SolarWinds® family. We believe this change will help to accelerate the adoption of our product as well as the pa…

Three Reasons Your Cloud Database Migration Will Fail

12/02/19 Moving relational data to cloud platforms has emerged as a “last frontier” for cloud-age computing. It is easy to consider the behemoth systems in place at large enterpris…

Why SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) Uses MySQL

11/30/19 This post was featured in our July 2015 anthology of most popular SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) blog posts of all time. With all the choice of database sys…

How Does AI Benefit the Tech World?

11/25/19 For some, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a scary technology. There are so many articles on the web about how AI will end up replacing X% of IT jobs by Y year. There’s…

Warning! A Robot Will Do Your Job Soon

11/08/19 Everyone take a deep breath and calm down. The likeliness of a robot taking over your job any time soon is very low. Yes, artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing trend, …

Scaling Up and Out With Microsoft Azure

11/01/19 Your infrastructure doesn’t just exist in your building or your physical data center anymore. Critical applications and services can live anywhere. What started with hardw…

Virtualizing SQL Server: Strategies and Best Practices

10/31/19 SQL Server virtualization is an expectation today, including for mission-critical systems. In its first decade of implementation, virtualization was rare for database work…

A Ghost in SolarWinds Machine Learning

10/27/19 Finally, artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving past hype and into the tools you actually depend on to keep operations humming. And now that machine learn…