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A DBA's Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Five)

Jun 17, 2021 By Kevin Kline In SolarWinds

We’ve reached the final piece of our five-part series, and while I’m sad to end it, I hope you or your DBA teams have learned enough to move forward with the Information Management Maturity Model (IMMM). Although there are five steps to this model, several DBAs stop at the fourth. It’s common for large organizations to give this step to management and higher-ups, rather than DBA teams.

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SolarWinds SQL Sentry Overview

Jun 16, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

SolarWinds SQL Sentry is designed to help you quickly identify and address Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL database performance problems that could delay, or even halt, data delivery. Find out how SQL Sentry can help you troubleshoot bottlenecks and optimize database performance. SolarWinds® SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt.

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How to Install SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Jun 16, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

This video shows you how to successfully install SolarWinds SQL Sentry. SolarWinds® SQL Sentry is a powerful database performance monitoring solution designed to help you find and fix database performance problems—and prevent future challenges—that could delay data delivery or even bring business data systems to a halt.

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Using the Redis Command-Line Correctly

Jun 16, 2021 By Zara Cooper In Lightrun

Redis is an open-source in-memory data store. You can use Redis as a database, message broker, or cache. It also supports Lua script evaluation so you can build automation scripts or custom operations on top of your key-value Redis store. Typically, developers use language-specific client libraries when building apps with Redis. These clients abstract Redis’ command-line interface (CLI), making it easier to work with but more work to set up.

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Fixing It Yourself: Troubleshooting Failing Masking Sets

Jun 14, 2021 By Redgate In Redgate

Data Masker for SQL Server is an incredibly powerful solution for de-identifying any sensitive PII that exists within your SQL Server Databases, but with great power, comes great configuration & customizability (and responsibility, of course). Join Chris, a Redgate Solution Engineer as they walk you through some of the common issues people can face when running masking sets, and how to easily start troubleshooting any failed runs yourself.

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Document Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL Databases With Database Mapper

Jun 14, 2021 By Carlo Mutuc In SolarWinds

We’re excited to announce SentryOne Document is now called SolarWinds® Database Mapper! The recently released Database Mapper 2021.8 enables you to document three additional database environments: Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. This makes Database Mapper a great tool to use in conjunction with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor database management solutions.

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Why standardizing migrations across multiple database types with Flyway adds up for Desjardins

Jun 10, 2021 By Stephen Fontanella In Redgate

A new case study shows how Desjardins uses Flyway Teams to standardize the way migration scripts are created and versioned across its multi-database estate, which includes Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL. With assets of over $350 billion and seven million members and clients, Desjardins is the leading financial cooperative in North America.

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A DBA's Habit for Success: CMMI (Part Four)

Jun 10, 2021 By Kevin Kline In SolarWinds

Welcome back! We’re nearing the end of our five-part series, and I hope you’ve gotten the information you need as a DBA to mature your business. In this part of the series, we’ll discuss Level 4 and the importance of servicing customers and teams with the skills acquired in levels one, two, and three.

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There's More Than One Way to Monitor Database Performance - SolarWinds Lab Episode #96

Jun 9, 2021 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

In this episode of SolarWinds Lab™, Head Geeks™ Kevin Kline and Thomas LaRock will show you the basics of database monitoring using free features within Microsoft® SQL Server® like Extended Events and SQL Agent Monitoring. Then they'll show you how to extend and amplify your database performance monitoring effectiveness with SolarWinds products Server & Application Monitor, Database Performance Analyzer, SQL Sentry, Database Performance Monitor, and Database Insights for SQL Server.

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Gremlin ALFI Demo - AWS RDS Unavailable - Chaos Engineering

Jun 9, 2021 By Gremlin In Gremlin

In this demo, we'll share how you can use ALFI (Application Level Failure Injection) to make AWS RDS unavailable. This enables you to learn how your application handles different failure modes. We'll be using the ALFI Latency attack to perform this Chaos Engineering experiment.

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