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The Hub and Spoke model of policy-based management for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 34th article on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we will explore policy-based management features for the AG’s. Introduction to policy-based management Policy-Based Management feature allows database professional in defining the best practices, standards for SQL Server and database related configurations.

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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

​​MongoDB is a schemaless database that is extremely flexible. MongoDB does not require any ALTER statement to modify the schema of a collection, like in a relational database. When you create a collection, you don’t have to specify a structure in advance, providing field names and data types.

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2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

High Scalability

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177
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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Text search.

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Sending SentryOne Data to the Azure SQL Database DTU Calculator

SQL Performance

If so, you may have heard about the Azure SQL Database DTU calculator , and you may have also read about how it has been reverse engineered by Andy Mallon. Database – Log Bytes Flushed/sec. When I looked through the SentryOne database, I found that 3 of the 4 counters were already being captured by default.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. Next Digital operates on AWS in a more highly available and fault-tolerant environment than their previous colocation solution.

AWS 149