Five Must-dos of Database Performance Management
06/19/18 Here is an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he explores database performance management. Databases are complex, multifaceted, and vital to the healt…
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Choosing What to Monitor – Understanding Key Metrics
06/18/18 Monitoring has always been a loosely defined and somewhat controversial term in IT organizations. IT professionals have very strong opinions about the tools they use, beca…
Customizing Logwatch for Sysadmin Needs
06/18/18 Logwatch is essentially a system log analyzer and reporter. It elaborates logs that are simply collected by syslog. This kind of evolution is simplifying the daily job of …
Six Ways to Protect your Database Backups
06/15/18 I often see forum posts from accidental administrators who want to know how to recover data without a backup. The short answer is, “Now is a good time to work on your resu…
Be Responsive and Responsible
06/13/18 Over the years, I’ve read more than a few articles about the qualities that are found in the best administrators. These articles focus on soft skills, but sometimes will l…
How DevOps Changes Monitoring
06/13/18 One of the most interesting changes that I have observed in my career is Microsoft shifting from just being a development organization to truly becoming a DevOps team, in …
The Future Isn’t in Databases, But in the Data
06/11/18 In the past year I have earned a couple of certificates from the Microsoft Professional Program. One certificate was in Data Science, the other in Big Data. I’m currently …
Monitor Critical Databases Confidently with the Sensitive Data Vault
06/01/18 Building extremely deep monitoring as a SaaS product has a drawback: we capture too much data for some customers’ compliance requirements. As a result, some companies have…
New Stats Exposed in Go’s database/SQL Package
05/22/18 If you keep up with the Go development cycle, then you’ll know Go recently entered its feature-freeze for the Go 1.11 release. One of the changes for this upcoming release…
The High Cost and Low Benefit of Unused Index Advice
04/26/18 You have to be careful what you wish for. The signal:noise ratio of finding out which indexes are “unused” is low. This isn’t obvious at first glance, but upon deeper insp…
How to Select the Right Queries to Optimize
04/18/18 Why is selecting the right queries to optimize so important? There are several reasons. Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish Look at the forest, not just the trees, and optimize glob…
Cognitive Bias in IT Decision Making
03/29/18 Logic and objective thinking are hallmarks of any engineering field. IT design and troubleshooting are no exceptions. Computers and networks are systems of logic so we, as…