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Database professionals are often called upon to investigate performance problems related to locking, but most investigations into locking rarely go beyond checking for blocks or investigating deadlocks. It is not very often that database professional...

We are pleased to announce an updated version of IDERA SQL DM Performance Insights for Azure Data Studio. And we are excited to be announcing the inclusion of this new version in the Azure Data Studio Marketplace and to be making this announcement in...

Precise for Sybase builds a history of activity showing resource consumers.  SQL statements are correlated to stored producers, logins, and programs.  Execution sub-states and waits are measured.  The screens below show a simple e...

The executable process that is the SQL Server Database Engine is called the Database Engine service. The Database Engine service is an executable program that runs as a Windows service that can continuously operate without displaying any activity on ...

Data Warehousing DBAs usually work with huge tables, often possessing hundreds of millions or even billions of rows. And occasionally, these DBAs might need to perform maintenance that requires either recreating the entire huge table or some of its p...

“Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.” – Brendan Hills Although data modeling has been around for over 30 years, it ranks among the top areas from whence database application problems arise. Moreover, th...

Those who are watching the data management industry have definitely seen an increase in the volume of posts, whitepapers, and webinars on the topic of Data Governance. This activity is partly due to the data privacy regulations that also have receive...

As tables increase in size and more users come online, it becomes increasingly necessary to fine-tune your MySQL database server from time to time. The secret to knowing what adjustments need to be made is to perform regular monitoring. Most database...

As data professionals, we recognize and understand the need for data governance, focusing on data quality in particular. We have made some progress in this area, as illustrated by the emergence of the Chief Data Officer role in recent years. However,...

ER/Studio Data Architect contains extensive metadata for all constructs utilized in the models and data dictionaries, whether used in logical modeling, physical modeling, or both. This includes names, descriptions, comments, datatypes, lengths and a ...

There are many ways to share files or SQL statements using Aqua Data Studio.  These range from shortcuts to your own file directories or company mapped drives, to shareable Aqua files, to popular native features within the menus and toolbars.&nb...

SQL queries are the primary mechanism to interact with databases. Therefore, ensuring that SQL queries perform well is essential. An important method to improve the performance of SQL queries is to use indexes properly to locate data quickly. To crea...

Today’s blog post concludes our four-part look into SQL performance and optimization. Part one introduced and explained relational optimization; part two reviewed query analysis and introduced single-table access path formulation; part three to...

Most people know that GDPR went into effect in May of 2018. For those of you who don't know, GDPR was put in place to protect people's PII (Personally Identifiable Information) Data.  This is the first holiday season with GDPR in effect, and add...

It seems like we hear about a new data breach on an almost daily basis.  This past week, we heard about two newsworthy data breaches that were caused/detected in some part by a Merger or Acquisition.  The first worth mentioning is the ...

Recently I was asked to contribute my thoughts on what things in database technology were a surprise in 2018 along with what trends and topics would be relevant in 2019.   You can read the full article here in Database Zone: Database 2018 S...

Successful solutions are successful solely because systems, users, and organizations have come to depend upon them. Such solutions are not necessarily successful because they were well crafted, intelligently designed, or adhere to any other theoretic...

In part one of our overview of SQL performance we examined relational optimization; part two took a look at query analysis and introduced single-table access path formulation. In today’s blog post, we move forward to look at the various methods...

Nearly all successful applications can benefit from the performance-driven strategies outlined in this whitepaper. Many of the categories and items discussed contain easy wins that can boost performance and scalability with far less effort than expec...

It can’t have escaped your attention that, in recent years, numerous new database platforms have been introduced on the market. Products such as Amazon Redshift, Apache Cassandra, Google BigQuery, and MongoDB are all new database products devel...

Microsoft markets a variety of SQL Server availability technologies under the umbrella term Always On. Always On is a broad term covers many features including things as simple as online index rebuilds and automatic page repair. The two main Always O...

In part one of our overview of SQL performance we examined relational optimization and the things that impact it. In today’s blog post, we turn our attention to query analysis and the ways that SQL gets turned into executable code. The optimiza...

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...