Database

Culture of Data Protection: What Your Customers Expect

08/23/18 We’ve talked about building a culture, why it applies to all data environments, and some specific types of data protection features you should be considering. Today, we’ll…

Databases 101: Choosing the Right Database

08/20/18 In my last post, we talked about the different types of databases available on the market for you to choose from. With over 300 options, it is hard to know which one is th…

Culture of Data Protection: Data Quality, Privacy, and Security

08/10/18 As I explained in previous posts on building a culture of data protection, we in the technology world must embrace data protection by design. To Reward, We Must Measure. H…

What Is Root Cause Analysis?

08/10/18 If you work in engineering or support, you’ve probably spent a lot of time troubleshooting things. You’ve probably spent just as much time trying to figure out why things …

Are Women in Technology Receiving Bad Advice?

08/08/18 IEEE ProComm 2018 Recently, I attended the IEEE ProComm 2018 conference in Toronto. I had the opportunity to hear about research and ideas involving professional communica…

What Is Cardinality in Monitoring?

07/30/18 I wrote a couple of “definitions and nuances” posts about terminology in databases recently (cardinality, selectivity), and today I want to write one about cardinality in …

What is Database Index Selectivity?

07/18/18 I wrote recently about database cardinality, and there’s a closely related topic that is equally confusing and I want to explain too: index selectivity. Index selectivity …

A Million Little Things: Strive for Greater Efficiency

07/13/18 OK, so a million is a little bit of an exaggeration, but there are tons of cool features inside our SentryOne solutions that I find a lot of our customers and evaluators d…

Five Common Problems with SQL Server

07/12/18 I am fortunate that I still work with SQL Server daily, and consulted from time to time on various projects and performance troubleshooting. It helps keep my skills sharp.…

How NOT to Monitor Your Database

06/28/18 Do you have experience putting out backend database fires? What were some things you wished you had done differently? Proactive database monitoring is more cost efficient,…

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor & Grafana: Better Together

06/19/18 Many of our customers have asked us to integrate with Grafana, the popular open platform for analytics and monitoring. The wait is over: we’ve released a plugin that lets …

After It Broke: Executing Good Postmortems

06/19/18 No matter how much automation, redundancy, and protection you build into your systems, thing are always going to break. It might be a change breaking an API to another sys…