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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This approach can determine malicious activity and block it by monitoring the flow of data within the application, all the way from the user to the database.

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Why you should benchmark your database using stored procedures

HammerDB

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

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Should You Keep Your Business Logic In Your Database?

Percona

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice. In the first case, all the heuristics are kept at the application layer, and the database has little or no effect on the data quality.

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What is vulnerability management? And why runtime vulnerability detection makes the difference

Dynatrace

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

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Bandwidth-friendly Query Profiling for Azure SQL Database

SQL Performance

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Network hit from the ADS Profiler extension (4-minute range).

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Helping your digital services run optimally for your customers and employees during COVID-19

Dynatrace

To accomplish this, Davis continuously analyzed over 28 billion dependencies, identifying a slowdown on the Citrix StoreFront service as the root-cause of the degradation and highlighted the network and threading issues down to the method-level (figure 4). Dynatrace’s ease of use has also been a major factor in the successes so far.