A common task that all database and system administrators face is patching systems. Patching your systems is very important -- first and foremost, security fixes are included in patches. Patches also ...

Developers often dismiss dynamic SQL used in PL/SQL programs for two reasons. One reason is that it's riskier because the SQL statements aren't parsed until runtime, so it's more difficult to catch ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

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Testing and tuning SQL is an often-overlooked aspect of incorporating the database into your DevOps pipeline. It is important to be able to analyze and optimize SQL performance within your application ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SentryOne announced the general availability of SQL Sentry Premium, a new edition of its flagship database performance monitoring solution. With the introduction of ...

However, while the addition of a SQL front-end was a significant step forward for the big data platform in terms of performance and workloads, it still lags behind such top relational query engines ...

The better your SQL database performs, the more effectively it will fulfill its purpose of providing information to the apps and services that rely upon it to function. Optimizing database performance ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company), a provider of powerful database productivity tools, today announced the latest release of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL v8.9. This release ...