Database

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…

SolarWinds DPM Supports Amazon Web Services’ Aurora Databases

10/19/19 It’s our pleasure to announce that SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM) now fully supports Amazon Web Services’ Aurora, a new and exciting evolution in database t…

The Database Future Is in the Cloud

10/16/19 I’ve written before about the disappearing DBA, and how the database administration role itself is evolving. I believe the days of tuning indexes are ending, one page at a…

The Marvel of Observability

10/07/19 “[You’ve] been fighting with one arm behind your back. What happens when [you’re] finally set free?” – Paraphrasing Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Captain Marvel BOOK REVIEW: How t…