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How To Reduce the Costs of Database Management in Financial Services

Percona

During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. With proper database management, it’s possible to cut your bills in half.

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2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence

High Scalability

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy?

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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.

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

SQL Shack

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. It is available from SQL Server 2008 onwards. Here, you can use […].

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11 Key Principles to Build Scalable Frontend Projects

Simform

When Netflix went from less than a million subscribers to over 9 million in 2008, it had a critical decision to sustain that gold rush of new subscriptions without affecting the existing users. While still dealing with database corruption, the company had to rapidly scale the platform to accommodate more users.

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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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"0 to 60" : Switching to indirect checkpoints

SQL Performance

Still, if you stack a bunch of high-transaction databases on there, checkpoint processing can get pretty sluggish. Change the Target Recovery Time of a Database. STATE = START ; I marked the time that I changed each database, and then analyzed the results from the Extended Events data using a query published in the original tip.

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