Modernizing databases is one of the best ways to improve database and application performance. However, many companies are hesitant to make major changes, even if they could lead to better outcomes. Why? Because there are prevailing myths about how database modernization projects fail to deliver on expectations. Five myths, in particular, seem to hold leaders […]
Database Migration From Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 2
In part one of this blog series, we looked at our approach to migration by leveraging the Azure data factory, tuning the performance of Data Factory Pipeline, using Parquet files and increasing computing power. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the challenges encountered during the migration, cost-saving actions and our approach to data […]
SQL Server MDF to NDF Distribution
Do you have massive MDF files on your database? Have you noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying operating system? It could be that your SQL Server data files are being hammered too hard and you don’t have enough […]
Database Migration from Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 1
Technological advancements have increased the demand for enhanced infrastructure with quick deployments. Public cloud providers are constantly upgrading their policies and infrastructure to match ever-growing business requirements. This competition gives businesses the ability to choose the cloud provider(s) that best fit specific governance and cost-effectiveness needs. In this blog, we discuss migrating databases from SQL […]
Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And while network, storage and compute have long been democratized by virtualization, one discipline has held out as the last bastion of vendor lock-in: […]
DevSecOps for Databases: Data Masking, Cloud Backup, WAF and More
DevSecOps is everywhere. More and more organizations realize that the traditional separation between DevOps and security is wasteful and dangerous. As a result, they are rushing to integrate security into all their software development processes. Adding security to containerized applications, cloud resources and other parts of modern DevOps infrastructure is already well understood. But what […]
Neo4j Will Use Funds to Expand Managed Cloud Database
In July 2021, Neo4j announced a large round of fundraising—its largest to date. Philip Rathle talked with Alan Shimel about how the capital will be used to further Neo4j’s go-to-market strategy and what that means for DevOps professionals. The video of the conversation is below, followed by a transcript. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. […]
The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures
One way of saving time when writing code is with stored procedures; prepared SQL code that you can save so the code can be reused over and over again. Stored procedures are a powerful vehicle for speeding up your code and giving you gains in performance. Stored procedures have many benefits—they can be easily modified, […]
Couchbase Revamps DBaaS Based on Document Database
Couchbase Inc. has unfurled a revamped database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform dubbed Couchbase Capella hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Scott Anderson, senior vice president for product management for Couchbase, said that as application development continues to evolve, it’s becoming apparent more organizations prefer to have providers of databases manage those platforms on their behalf. […]
InfluxData Simplifies AppDev for Time-Series Databases
During an online InfluxDays North America 2021 Virtual Experience conference, InfluxData today expanded the capabilities of its application development tools using its Flux query language on top of its time-series database. The company has enhanced its InfluxDB Notebooks tool to enable developers to quickly set up an alert, build a task or write a Flux […]
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