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Database professionals must handle many different tasks during the work day, ranging from creating queries and scripts to comparing and editing dataset results, just to name a few. Whether you’re a DBA or a developer, you may have some frequent...

Everyone makes mistakes. Database administrators are no exception to that rule. When database administrators make mistakes, they are often the ones who find it first and have to fix it. The trick to appear to never making mistakes is to get good at d...

Application developers must code efficient SQL and understand how to optimize SQL in order to develop efficient applications. But it is not just the programmer, but also the DBA who must understand SQL optimization. It is a joint responsibility and f...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Inventory Manager 2.5. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the IDERA Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the IDERA website. This release in...

Automated alerts are essential to performance monitoring. Automated alerts enable spotting issues in infrastructures, identifying their causes, and rapidly minimizing degradation and disruption of services. Alerts draw human attention to particular s...

IDERA is pleased to announce the introduction of IDERA SQL DM Performance Insights, a Microsoft Azure Data Studio (ADS) extension which displays key performance metrics for SQL Server that have been collected and stored in a database repository by ID...

Introducing the 2018-2019 Class of IDERA ACEs! We are excited to introduce our 2018-2019 class of IDERA ACEs! This program helps active members of the database and data modeling community share industry knowledge by sponsoring their travel for speaki...

One of the most overlooked powerful features in Aqua Data Studio is the Data Grid. The data grid can double your productivity with Data Management. No matter where the data resides, whether in a relational, cloud, document store, or an Excel source, ...

A solid data analysis process and capable tools are key components of a strong data professional's skill set.   Join IDERA (@Idera_Software) and host Chris Hyde (@ChrisHyde325) on Wednesday, November 28 at 11 AM CT for a community discussion on ...

Statistics, or “stats,” are fundamental components of SQL Server performance, but vastly under-appreciated and misunderstood. They are at the core of query optimization and can have a tremendous effect on query plan selection. The query o...

How many times have you been querying some data, or looking at a report, and asked yourself something like “Should I believe this data? I wonder where this data came from?” Well, what you are asking about is the lineage of the data. The M...

Howdy! In this short and concise blog post, I am really excited to be sharing on how to reverse engineer from ER/Studio via ODBC. For reverse engineering from ODBC check out this article. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/ERStudioDA/171/en/Configuring_O...

"Data modeling is all about understanding the data within our organizations and then representing this data in a precise visual (the “data model”) which aids communication – saving time during development, saving money on support, a...

The security of any database can be improved. However, that likely degrades the performance of the database. The cost increases to improve database security while maintaining database performance. That is, the trade-off consists of three axes: Perfor...

Introduction Locking is required for concurrent operations of relational databases to prevent data inconsistency and loss. However, locking impairs the performance of databases. Moreover, the locking process is often complicated. Deadlocks occur when...

As more organizations embrace big data and analytics to gain insight from extremely large data sets the tools and systems that we use to manage data have grown, changed, and multiplied. Instead of just relational, SQL database systems, we now use NoS...

On June 28th, 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).  It will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Guidelines must be followed for any company who wishes to collect data on California residents. Some of the law may be...

This is the third part of a three-part series of blog posts. Read also the first part and second part.   Analyze Queries In addition to the real-time monitoring, SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL offers several different ways of identifying ...

The quote comes from Jean-Baptiste Karr.  And while some may not be familiar with the source and that original language version, almost everyone is familiar with the paradoxical adage in English,  “The more things change, the more the...

Howdy! ER/Studio Users, Prospective Users and Data Modeling Enthusiasts.. In this short blog post , I would like to list out some of my Favorite ER/Studio Macros in the product. Auto Create Data Dictionary - This macro will enable one to kick...

Uptime Cloud Monitor (UCM) now supports Google OAuth SSO authentication. Now you can use your Google account or G Suite enabled account to log in to your UCM account. Get Google OAuth setup today. Prerequisites To log in to your UCM account using Goo...

This is the second part of a three-part series of blog posts. Read also the first part. Click here to view the third part.   Get Overview The OVERVIEW page, which is the initial page, gives you a high-level view of your environment. You get a q...

It’s that time of year again! IDERA is excited to see everyone at PASS Summit 2018! This year’s summit will take place from November 6th-9th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. The exhibit hall will be o...

In the Setting up Basic Master-Slave Replication in MySQL 8 blog, we went through the process of setting up two MySQL servers on the same box for the purposes of replication. In that scenario, the Master handled write operations, while the Slave perf...

Let me guess: You have been using UCM Collector to monitor your server infrastructure, and everything is going great. Except for one minor issue: Whenever a new server spins up, you need to spend 2 to 3 minutes to install the collector agent on the n...