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Originally appearing on OrangeMatter. Welcome back to our five-part series in which we discuss a top habit for DBAs to increase business functionality. In part one of this series, we discussed the importance of a capability maturity model (CMM) and more specifically Level 1 of the information management maturity model…
Originally appearing on OrangeMatter. Finding the perfect flow for your business can take time and patience. Like almost anything else in life, a business must go through stages of maturity before it reaches its final form and only requires regular maintenance. In this five-part series, we’ll dive into Capability Maturity…
Growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, WA, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s was like most everyone else’s experiences. Dad worked as an analog computer engineer for a Boeing subcontractor and Mom was a homemaker. If you visited my house back then, you would notice one big difference from other homes in middle-class America.…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Brandon Shopp about choosing a database tool to help improve application performance and support advanced troubleshooting. Given the importance of databases to application performance, I’m surprised this topic…
In the last two posts, I talked about databases and why network and storage are so darn important for their well-being. These are two things that a lot of companies are struggling with and in some ways, seem to have mastered over the years in their own data centers. But now it seems they will be obsolete when things like…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Every federal IT pro should be doing standard database auditing, which includes: * Taking a weekly inventory of who accessed the database, as well as other performance and capacity data * Ensuring they receive daily, weekly, and monthly alerts through a…
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