by Scott Loudon | Sep 15, 2020 | Cloud, database monitoring, virtual storage
A DBA’s Transition Guide for Hosting on the AWS Cloud So your organization has decided to migrate your traditional on-premises IT infrastructure to the AWS Cloud in the hopes of realizing cost savings, and to cut down on the time it takes to provision and configure...
by Robert Buda | Dec 19, 2013 | Oracle, Oracle In-memory Database
One of the major announcements Oracle made during the Open World was the launch of Oracle In Memory Database Option. The In-Memory option to Oracle Database 12c is 100 percent compatible with existing applications and leverages all existing Oracle Database...
by Robert Buda | Nov 30, 2011 | MySQL
The Impact of Query Rewrite on MySQL Query Optimization When processing a query, every relational database vendor takes a number of similar steps to parse, validate, and optimize a query. MySQL does the following: Validates the query syntax — does it use valid...
by Robert Buda | Jun 21, 2011 | Database, SQL Server
In an earlier blog post about database hints, I gave a number of reasons why I dont like to use hints in SQL queries. Today I wanted to follow up to share one situation where I think hints are OK, even necessary. As described very well in an article in an article by...
by Robert Buda | Feb 3, 2011 | Best Practices, Oracle
As we evaluate our clients’ Oracle databases and help them solve problems relating to performance and stability, we see many causes for these issues. However, there are a small number of basic issues that tend to cause problems on the majority of systems. Our Tech...
