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The Ultimate Holiday SQL DBA Checklist for a Stress Free Year End
A DBA’s Holiday Miracle: Enjoy Your Time Off Without SQL Invaders Sneaking In For SQL Server DBAs, the holiday season is supposed to be a time to...
Understanding the Audit-Trail Gap – Beware the Stealth Invader
What It Is An audit-trail gap occurs when critical SQL Server activity—logins, permission changes, schema updates, DDL/DML operations, or SELECT...
SQL Query Optimization: 23 Proven Techniques
Introduction At Idera, we’ve spent years helping SQL Server DBAs and database professionals keep their environments running at peak performance. SQL...
SQL Server Security Best Practices: Protecting Data and Ensuring Compliance
SQL Server security is one of the most pressing priorities for organizations today. Data breaches, unauthorized access, and misconfigurations...
Understanding Query Regressions – The Slow-Burn Invader
What It Is A SQL Server query regression occurs when a query that once performed well suddenly slows down. This usually happens due to execution...
SQL Performance Tuning Dos and Dont’s
Every second counts when it comes to query execution. Poorly tuned SQL queries can drag down application performance, spike CPU usage, and in...
Understanding TempDB Contention
What It Is TempDB contention happens when multiple sessions compete for TempDB resources, slowing down SQL Server. TempDB serves as a workspace...
SQL Under Siege: The Hidden Threats Lurking in Your Databases
Managing SQL Server environments today is more challenging than ever. As databases become larger, more distributed, and increasingly regulated, they...
Understanding Baselines for SQL Server Performance
What It Is A SQL Server performance baseline is a snapshot of your system under normal load. It helps identify what is considered normal for that...
Backup SQL Server: Essential Tools and Strategies
Don’t Take Chances - Backup Your SQL Data! With an overwhelming amount of blog posts, news articles, LinkedIn horror stories, and water cooler chats...
How to Successfully Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database
Learn about SQL Server to Azure migration and follow these procedures for a trouble-free migration process If you’re thinking about migrating your...
A User-Centric Tuning Philosophy
Collaborative Holistic Tuning of the Application Stack When planning for this blog, I deliberated over the title much more than anyone should ever...
SQL Safe Backup 9.2.2 General Availability
We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Safe Backup 9.2.2 SQL Safe Backup is a comprehensive solution for SQL Server database backup and...
SQL Diagnostic Manager 12.3 General Availability
SQL Diagnostic Manager 12.3 is available now. Upgrade or download the free trial version from Idera.com.
Unraveling SQL Server Locks, Blocks, and Deadlocks
Author This blog post was authored by Pinal Dave from SQLAuthority. Introduction Concurrency control is a fundamental part of any database...
TempDB Troubles: Identifying and Resolving TempDB Contentions
Author This blog post was authored by Pinal Dave from SQLAuthority. Introduction The tempdb system database is a global resource in Microsoft SQL...
Deciphering the SQL Server Performance Mysteries
Author This blog post was authored by Pinal Dave from SQLAuthority. Introduction Microsoft's SQL Server is a robust and widely adopted database...
Key Insights into Ensuring SQL Server Security with These Practices
There are several examples where data theft has halted businesses or resulted in bad press that will leave a tarnished image. For instance, in 2017,...
Top 5 Reasons for Slow SQL Server Queries and How to Fix Them
Slow SQL Server Queries are a common issue among database administrators (DBAs). You would be hard-pressed to find a SQL Server DBA who was not...
What Is Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)?
Bare metal to cloud hosted virtual machines Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) is a four-letter word in every sense, well beyond simply the number of...