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How to Prepare for a SQL Server DBA Interview and Questions

So, you have an interview lined up for a sweet new gig as a SQL Server database administrator (DBA). What interview questions will you be asked? How can you make sure you ace the interview? What will make you stand out from the other candidates? There are no concrete answers, because… “it depends.” However, you can count on at least two major components of your interview – a technical component and a non-technical component, often focusing on soft skills.

How to Quickly Identify Performance Issues in Azure SQL Database

Moving your database to the cloud using a PaaS option such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance reduces the maintenance overhead required from the database administrator (DBA). The DBA no longer must worry about managing backups or configuring high availability, for example. That said, the DBA still needs to tune the database’s performance and monitor SQL workloads. The Azure Portal offers several services to quickly identify performance issues for Azure SQL Databases.

Event and Log Management for Optimized Security and Performance

The full stack isn't just cloud-based, microservices apps, but includes on-premises and hybrid private cloud infrastructure and packaged applications. The challenges associated with aggregating, analyzing, reporting, and alerting intelligently on logs have become more complex than ever due to the acceleration of packaged and customized application deployment in support of business transformation, alongside the growing requirements needed to ensure security and compliance. This webinar will explore multiple methods to ensure compliance, identify threats, and optimize MTTR by monitoring, analyzing, and managing logs across all types of application and infrastructure architectures.

5 Business Insights to Gain From APM

With soaring demand on digital infrastructures, increasing deployment of B2B and B2C custom applications, and ever-tightening budget constraints, it’s more important than ever to ensure service delivery in a cost-effective manner. Delays experienced by your business partners and customers mean higher costs, lost revenue, and lost market share at a time when you can least afford it. In effect, slow is the new down.

3 Steps Government Employees Can Take to Become Good Cybercitizens

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated across ever-expanding attack surfaces, it’s easy to assume the security team will take care of risk management and mitigation. Indeed, employees—both within the agency and across the contractor community—are one of the greatest risks to the government’s security postures.

Monitoring and Securing Office 365 | Government and Education Webinar

Learn how SolarWinds solutions can help you monitor Microsoft Office 365® (O365) performance and security. As organizations adopt O365, their IT team maintains responsibility for ensuring effective operations, so users can continue to collaborate. Moving to the cloud still requires management, and IT pros need to maintain visibility to understand and resolve problems. Access rights and permissions are also important in securing your O365 implementation.

Daily SQL Server Performance Checklist for DBAs

A main focus for database administrators (DBAs) is to ensure server environments are optimized and performance is at its peak. Whether you’re a DBA starting in a new role and are evaluating an existing environment for the first time, or you’re a senior database professional with the ongoing task of maintaining optimal performance, following key SQL Server best practices for installing, configuring, and ensuring new instances of SQL Server are consistently deployed is all in a day’s work.

What's New With Pingdom?

SolarWinds Pingdom is focused on making web application monitoring simple and easy to use, yet still powerful and affordable. In the past six months, we’ve made several updates we’re excited to share with you. These new features come at no additional cost and all customers regardless of tier level have access to them. The updates were launched with two main benefits in mind: ease of use and quick set up. We’ll walk through our latest updates from 2020 including.