Database

The Impact Of Coupling On System Design

03/16/18 In system design, every technical decision can be seen as a series of trade-offs. If I choose to implement Technology A it will provide a positive outcome in one way, but …

Assessing Database Health and Performance

03/13/18 Here is an interesting article from my colleague Joe Kim, in which he explores database health and performance. Part of the problem with managing databases is that many pe…

Numeric Optimization in Golang With Nelder-Mead and Gonum

03/12/18 Numeric optimization is a set of techniques for fitting a function to a dataset by iteratively refining estimates. Numeric optimization is one way to do things like curve-…

Disaster Recovery – Time To Create Our Plan!

03/06/18 Thus far, we have gone over how to classify our disasters and how to have some of those difficult conversations with our organization regarding Disaster Recovery (DR). We’…

Announcement: p99 Percentile Metrics

03/01/18 I’m pleased to announce that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) offers 99th percentile metrics to help understand latency outliers in a query workload. These m…

How To Buy Software 2018

02/26/18 Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of…

Traveling With Joy

02/26/18 Recently, two people I respect very much tweeted about travel, and how to remain positive and grateful while you do it. You can read those tweets (here) and (here). When I…

Business Continuity – DR Is Really just a Piece of a Much Bigger Cake!

02/20/18 All too often, especially if disaster recovery (DR) is driven and pushed by the IT department, organizations can fall into the common mistake of assuming that they are “go…

T-SQL Tuesday #99: Missing Indexes and Index Key Order

02/13/18 Welcome to the 99th edition of T-SQL Tuesday, hosted this month by friend (and coworker) Aaron Bertrand. We were given a choice and I decided to dive into Aaron’s Index of…

Before Choosing a Technical Disaster Recovery Solution

02/07/18 Getting right into the technical nitty-gritty of the Disaster Recovery (DR) plan is probably my favorite part of the whole process. I mean, as an IT professional this is o…

Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication With the AWS CLI

01/29/18 As part of achieving SOC-2 certification, we had to implement stricter requirements around AWS authentication. Database Performance Monitor has had multi-factor authentica…

It’s Inevitable. Your Database Will Fail

01/23/18 Databases fail. No one can promise 100% uptime, it’s impossible. Whether the database is large, small, on-premise or cloud-based, all have the potential to fail. This coul…