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As data needs only increase, it’s important to make sure you’re finding storage methods that best suit you and your business’ needs. Today we’re going to provide a brief overview of cloud data...

11 November 2022

It's All About the Data As companies begin to operate and grow, they should also start to collect data. Initially, most companies use projections based on many factors, from industry research to...

01 November 2022

Improve your backup and recovery strategy and meet your SLAs According to a recent poll, less than a quarter of respondents are completely confident that 100% of their backed-up data can be...

21 October 2022

Implement Monitoring As every person in IT knows, monitoring the health of your database environment is extremely important for the stability and availability of your data, but… your DBA staff is...

23 September 2022

Daily DBA Responsibilities There are many different types of DBA roles, each having its unique responsibilities. One DBA may focus on building systems. One may be responsible for maintaining and...

10 September 2022

Top 3 Reasons is the Best Approach The complexity of modern day database environments require 24x7x365 attention to detect and immediately address any issues that may occur.  However, tight IT...

10 September 2022

A Long Term Solution for Business DBA Needs Organizations are managing hundreds of terabytes of information daily. This vital information helps to analyze and understand markets more thoroughly. When...

10 September 2022

Steps to Migrate Your SQL Server to the Cloud Perhaps you’re interested in reducing the amount of time spent on managing your current SQL Servers, or maybe you’d like to use a more modern approach....

10 September 2022

The Importance of a Database State of Health Check Knowledge is power and proactively determining what’s causing problems in your system is integral to keeping your system functioning and keeping you...

08 September 2022

Monitoring Database Environment All IT experts know the importance of monitoring the health of a database environment and how doing so has a major impact on the stability and availability of data,...

19 August 2022

Bring Your Own Device: While the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept is not new, in recent years, it has become increasingly more popular than it was back in 2005 when the term was first coined, or...

13 July 2022

Upgrade Technology Many of today’s data breaches are a result of hacking. This number is astoundingly high and in the past two years has significantly risen. While it may be scary to know that...

01 June 2022

Update Your Technology We all know how fast technology changes. Look at how quickly new cell phones are released one after another. The same is true for household items such as televisions and...

20 May 2022

A 5g Future? Let’s travel back to the dial-up days when it took so long to connect to the internet that you could barely sit still. We’d twiddle our thumbs, tap our feet anxiously, and stare at the...

04 May 2022

How can I use AI? We use AI in our daily lives in various ways. Major corporations that we interact with everyday have managed to incorporate the use of AI into websites and apps in ways that seem...

27 April 2022

Game Theory Game theory is such a useful tool in every aspect of its capabilities. For teachers, the use of such a tool enables strategic lesson planning which can be extremely useful in holding the...

21 April 2022

Congratulations! You Have a Video Interview. Congratulations on your new employment journey! If you’re here, we’ll assume you’re either searching for a new position or you have already scored an...

17 March 2022

Designing a Database   Entities The Type of Information saved in a database is separated into entities. Entities can be people, events locations, and even things. If it doesn't fit into one of these...

10 March 2022

6 Steps to Design a Database Interestingly, when designing a database, much of the hard work is in the planning stages long before physically working with a database management system (DBMS)....

03 March 2022

Intro to Database Design Welcome to our "Intro to Database Design" series! In this first article, our goal is simply to cover the basics. While you may know much or all of this information, let's...

16 February 2022

Reduce Operational Costs and Optimize Your Environment: Continually evolving businesses (e.g., entering new markets, mergers, and acquisitions), coupled with high DBA-turnover rate can quickly result...

19 July 2021

Instructional Design for eLearning Imagine sitting through a class or taking a course and later realizing that you didn't learn any of what you needed to know. Perhaps it was the wrong class, or...

24 June 2021

Dashboard Design Trends Each dashboard tells a unique story that offers users the opportunity to monitor which key performance indicators (KPIs) are working and which need more attention. A dashboard...

02 June 2021

Forecasting in Pharma Proper planning and accurate forecasting in the pharmaceutical industry are vital, and skipping this step can cost pharmaceutical companies countless hours and billions of...

02 June 2021

Forecasting in Pharma Forecasts are pretty valuable in any industry. However, in the pharmaceutical industry, accurate forecasting can be particularly challenging to achieve. In previous years,...

25 May 2021

Find All Query The Problem Your boss has asked you to make changes to an application that will affect an MS SQL Server database, and first needs to know the impact analysis of those changes before...

27 November 2020

Software Development Life Cycle The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a process that seeks to help developers produce the highest quality software with the lowest cost in the shortest time...

23 January 2020

Use SQL Server Client Network Utility The Problem: SharePoint is, of course, a monster of an application platform with many configuration quirks.  As a DBA supporting a content database utilized by a...

21 November 2018

Using Simple Powershell Processes Your DBA is receiving complaints about a slow server at random periods throughout the week.  How do you assess the environment and troubleshoot performance issues at...

14 November 2018

Effects of Blockchain Implementation As today’s data needs only increase – in size, scope, and depth, companies begin to turn to new methods and systems for managing these vast quantities of data....

31 October 2018

Creating a Telephone Interview Script for Successful, Consistent Interviewing Telephone interviews are an easy, time-saving way to screen candidates.  Developing a script or template for interviewing...

28 September 2018

You Have an Interview! Congratulations!  Scoring a telephone interview means you have made it to the pool of promising applicants.  While a telephone interview sounds like it’s easy, there is an art...

30 March 2018