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Gaining a real competitive edge in managed services

Jul 23, 2021 By Edwin Side In Redgate
These are interesting – and challenging – times to be a Managed Service Provider. When it first published its Managed Services Market Size Forecast, Mordor Intelligence valued the market at US$152 billion in 2020, and predicted it to reach US$274 billion by 2026, a compound annual growth rate of 11.2%. Over a year later, following a pandemic which has changed the way most of us work and which will probably see permanent changes going forward, Mordor is sticking by its prediction.
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How to encourage DBAs to embrace DevOps, rather than fear change

Jul 22, 2021 By Kendra Little In Redgate
How do we help Database Administrators (DBAs) embrace DevOps in a way that can be really productive and part of a rich DevOps team that delivers value to customers quickly and continuously? That’s an important question to ask right now because there’s a common view among DBAs that DevOps isn’t for them. They’re responsible for documentation and maintenance and deployments, they have internal customers, and they serve internal requests.
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After analyzing 600,000 SQL queries, these are the top mistakes developers make - Oded Valin

Jul 21, 2021 By JFrog In JFrog
Yalla! DevOps 2021 -- The first, in-person DevOps conference of the year! Driven by the DevOps community. All about the DevOps community. Users want to see their data fast, immediately, now. Whether you’re working with an ORM or writing native SQL, you probably had a “scratching-my-head-trying-to-figure-out-why-this-database-is-so-slow” moment. The team at EverSQL analyzed more than 600,000 SQL queries from thousands of different companies, to lay down the most common mistakes developers do when writing SQL queries. This talk focuses on writing SQL the right way, the fast way.
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Cloud 66 Feature Highlight: Multi Database Support

Jul 21, 2021 By Cloud 66 In Cloud 66
Many applications use multiple types of datastores simultaneously - mixing SQL and NoSQL databases, for example. Or your application might need two separate clusters of the same database engine to handle an upgrade, or to support separate services. This is where Multi Database Support comes handy. What is Multi Database Support? Multi Database Support makes it possible to attach more than one database group to your application.
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Why Would You Pay for Flyway?

Jul 19, 2021 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
Flyway is an open-source database deployment tool that also includes a paid tier called Teams. Since it’s open-source, you can just download Flyway and run it for free. You’ll get a robust DevOps tool to assist you in deploying your databases just like you deploy your code. It just works. So, why would you even bother to pay for Teams? Actually, there are a number of reasons why people pay for advanced tiers of open-source software in general.
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Data cataloging: A giraffe's eye view

Jul 19, 2021 By Louise Domeisen In Redgate
In the latest DBAle podcast episode our hosts, Chris and Chris, tackled what they really mean by cataloging a database and how taking a ‘giraffe’s eye view’ approach to compliance is not enough. That’s because the most common data concerns for managers and execs center around where your sensitive data is, the risk it poses and, if you’re migrating to the cloud, how much sensitive data is being stored on that database or that instance.
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Overcoming SQL Server Blocking and Locking Challenges

Jul 15, 2021 By Denny Cherry In SolarWinds
One of the most common performance problems with SQL Server databases in production is the blocking of queries, which happens because database resources are locked. Understanding why locking happens is just half the battle. Being able to resolve locking, which will resolve blocking issues as well, is the second half.
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Enabling Single Sign-On with SQL Monitor

Jul 13, 2021 By Ben Emmett In Redgate
It’s never been more critical to protect your data infrastructure against malicious actors, with organizations dealing with an ever-expanding number of increasingly sophisticated attacks. Monitoring solutions represent part of your infrastructure’s attack surface area – they enjoy highly privileged access to the systems they help manage, and store sensitive information about the workloads running on them.
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Self-hosting vs Managed Services: Deciding how to host your database

Jul 12, 2021 By Max Rozen In OnlineOrNot

Like all good things in infrastructure, picking whether or not to self-host your database is full of trade-offs. On the one hand, you have the absolute freedom to do whatever it is you want with your database - whether it's adding a useful Postgres extension, or experimenting with new technologies. On the other hand, you now have to dedicate resources to keeping your database reliably online.

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