Fri.Jan 10, 2025

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Optimizing SQL Server Performance With AI: Automating Query Optimization and Predictive Maintenance

DZone

SQL Server is a powerful relational database management system (RDBMS), but as datasets grow in size and complexity, optimizing their performance becomes critical. Leveraging AI can revolutionize query optimization and predictive maintenance, ensuring the database remains efficient, secure, and responsive. In this article, we will explore how AI can assist in these areas, providing code examples to tackle complex queries.

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Prevent Encryption Key Loss When Using Percona Server for MongoDB with HashiCorp’s Vault

Percona

When setting up data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption) in Percona Server for MongoDB, one has three options for storing a master encryption key: Encryption key file on a filesystem, KMIP server, HashiCorp’s Vault. An encryption key file is only suitable for testing due to its lack of proper security.

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Low-Maintenance Backend Architectures for Scalable Applications

DZone

After years of working in the intricate world of software engineering, I learned that the most beautiful solutions are often those unseen: backends that hum along, scaling with grace and requiring very little attention. My own journey of redesigning numerous systems and optimizing their performance has taught me time and again that creating a truly low-maintenance backend is an art that goes far beyond simple technical implementation.