How to Perform a Database Health Check: An Essential 12-Point Checklist
The performance degradation of a database is rarely a sudden event. It is a slow and insidious process, a death by a thousand cuts, where
The performance degradation of a database is rarely a sudden event. It is a slow and insidious process, a death by a thousand cuts, where
For decades, database management has been a discipline of reactive administration. The DBA, a specialist in a silo, operated as the guardian of a monolithic
For many organizations, database performance optimization is classified as an “engineering problem”: a technical, reactive task that competes for resources with the development of new,
The traditional approach to performance tuning in Oracle, historically focused on ratio metrics like the Buffer Cache Hit Ratio, is a reactive and, in many cases,
The holy war between the proponents of Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) and the purists of SQL is one of the most enduring in software engineering. On
In the cloud era, provisioning a powerful relational database is a matter of minutes. With a few clicks, a fully managed and scalable PostgreSQL or
In the world of database optimization, indexes are celebrated as performance heroes. They are the first tool we pull out to solve a slow SELECT query, and
For most developers and SREs, a SQL query is a declarative statement. You tell the database what you want (SELECT columns FROM tables WHERE condition), and the
For decades, the figure of the Database Administrator (DBA) has been the pillar of corporate data stability. In a world of on-premises infrastructure, physical servers,
For decades, the backbone of system monitoring has been the static threshold alert. A rule, manually defined by an engineer, that says: IF CPUUtilization > 80%