by Brad Patterson | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Data Management
I often use the Informix Developer Edition for ARM on my Raspberry Pi for quick prototyping and proof-of-concept (POC) experiments as the Informix Developer Edition has all of the features of the full Enterprise Edition, including native JSON and Time Series...
by XTIVIA | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Databases
This article is part 10 in a series on the top 10 most common mistakes that I have seen impact SQL Server Performance and Resiliency. This post is not all-inclusive. Most common mistake #10: Storage For the final post in the top 10 items that influence the performance...
by XTIVIA | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Databases
This discussion provides an understanding of what is included in a sound backup strategy for your Sql Server data warehouse application. Most data warehouse applications require a different backup and recovery strategy than a typical online transaction processing...
by XTIVIA | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Keeping track of SQL Server Jobs is an important part of maintaining a database proactively. The below script pulls a quick list of all jobs, completion status, and date the job ran. Taking this a step further one could have the SQL Server email them a copy...
by XTIVIA | Sep 19, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases, Enterprise Infrastructure
20 years ago when I got a 80386 Windows-95 PC with ¾ inch Floppy Drive, 4 MB RAM (I don’t remember the HDD capacity – I believe it was around 120MB or so) from my infrastructure guy, I felt like I’m hero on the street advertising to everyone the great piece of...
by XTIVIA | Aug 6, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
A lot of DB2 LUW DBAs spend significantly more time working with DB2 on Linux and UNIX than they do working with DB2 on Microsoft Windows. This can lead to frustration when administering DB2 on Windows. Using a PowerShell command line for DB2 instead of a DB2 Command...