Everyone talks about “best practices” but what exactly are they? A "best practice" is a professional procedure or tactic that is accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective. Take a ...

Organizations that use prepackaged ERP/CRM, custom, and third-party applications are seeing their production databases grow exponentially. At the same time, business policies and regulations require ...

Planning a database migration/upgrade entails numerous issues that require close attention. The most common issue is system downtime. Accounting for the possibility of extended system downtimes and ...

The data management discipline known as data integration (DI) has undergone an impressive expansion over the last decade. Today it has reached a critical mass of multiple techniques used in diverse ...

I'm doing a distributed database audit for my company and as part of I'm looking into how our databases are monitored. Can anyone recommend a resource for "best practices" for DB monitoring? The ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In my opinion, one of the most reputable organizations providing credentials is Google, and one ...