Everyone talks about “best practices” but what exactly are they? A "best practice" is a professional procedure or tactic that is accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective. Take a ...

As database administrators (DBAs) undertake more responsibilities than ever before, Janis Griffin, database performance evangelist and senior DBA, SolarWinds, with 26 years of experience under her ...

When it comes to mission-critical systems and databases, we all know that we need to plan for disaster. It's not the most exciting work; there's often little reward even when it's well done, and the ...

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As Oracle prepares to dump a passel of 81 security fixes on its user base -- including seven critical patch updates (CPUs) for its database product -- many database administrators are preparing to ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

The cloud database is a database that has been designed or optimized within the virtualized computing atmosphere. Moreover, placing the database into the cloud can be considered the most useful way to ...