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Using Oracle VM to Create Dev and Test Environments

Using Oracle VM can be a fast and reliable way to create dev and test environments. …

GDPR for the DBA

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect worldwide on May 25, …

Creating an Oracle Patching Strategy

Patching an Oracle installation can be interesting, especially if the patch needs to be …

Top Reporting Tools for MySQL in 2018

Rob Gravelle presents some of the Top Reporting Tools for MySQL for your viewing …

Azure SQL Database and GDPR Compliance

In recent years, technology landscape has undergone dramatic changes, driven primarily …

Databases with MAXSIZE Set

When a database grows to the MAXSIZE the database will not grow anymore and if someone …

Indexes That Have Not Been Used but Are Being Updated

We all know indexes are important for improving your query performance, but to store …

Moving from Oracle Solaris to x86

Since Solaris is soon to be unsupported the x86 platform may be a desirable …

Adaptive Query Processing in SQL Server

Adaptive query processing is the latest query processing feature introduced in the SQL …

Oracle's Conventional Export (exp) May Cause Problems

There may be some still using conventional export (exp); with Oracle 12 that may not be …

Monitor Your MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Servers with Navicat Monitor

The latest player to enter the database monitoring arena is Navicat. Rob Gravelle …

5 More Features of IBM Db2 12 for z/OS

IBM's Db2 Version 12 for z/OS has many new features that focus on performance and …

Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB Security

Deployment of cloud-based technologies introduces a wide range of challenges; however, …

Tables Without Clustered Indexes

Do all of your tables contain clustered indexes? Some say every table should have a …

Why Are You Dropping and Recreating Your Indexes?

Why are you dropping and recreating your indexes, when you could just disable and then …