by Willie Gray | Jul 14, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Maintenance, Database Security
Why if it’s not broke don’t fix it does not work for databases (or anywhere in IT for that matter) One of the hotly debated items among IT professionals is the age-old question,”When should the database be updated?” At Buda Consulting we always like to...
by Robert Buda | Jun 22, 2021 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices
What is a Disaster Recovery Plan The elements of a disaster recovery plan (also called a Business Continuity Plan) is a document that describes how an organization will survive a disaster. These can be natural disasters like hurricanes, fires, terrorist attacks, or...
by Willie Gray | Mar 18, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Patch News, database patching, Database Security, Oracle, SQL Server
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
by Robert Buda | Mar 18, 2021 | Best Practices, Database, MySQL, SQL Server
The Lost Science Of Relational Algebra And Set Theory I originally wrote this post in 2011. Much has changed in the database technology landscape since then. Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop have gone mainstream, cloud technology and is changing how and where we...
by Willie Gray | Mar 15, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
It was very cold and early on a Monday morning when I received a call from one of my fellow system administrators. He reported that one of our production databases would not come back online after the server hosting the database was restarted. Most DBAs would start...
by Scott Loudon | Feb 16, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Patch News, database patching, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, SQL Server
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
