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What's new in SQL Server 2017

Ready for the Future

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 introduces SQL Server on Linux, along with machine learning services, support for graph data, and on-premises Power BI.
Linux , Microsoft , SQL
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Analyzing tricky database problems

Set Theory

Database administrators at the Swiss foundation Switch were increasingly encountering corrupt data, which prompted a painstaking bug hunt. The solution they found increased performance by a factor of six.
Administration , Databases , optimization
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Project management with Phabricator

The Fabricator

Bug trackers are the least thing that can be deployed to combat chaos in daily IT work. The free Phabricator software provides this service and many others.
MySQL , PHP , Red Hat , tools
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PostgreSQL Replication Update

Data Duplication

High availability, replication, and scaling are everyday necessities in the database world. What features does PostgreSQL offer in this context, and how good are they?
Databases , PostgreSQL
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Grafana and time series databases

More than a Thousand Words

We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.
Databases , Monitoring , tools
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Take your pick from a variety of AWS databases

Choose Carefully

We look at the variety of databases available in Amazon Web Services – from relational, to NoSQL, to data warehouses for petabyte data volumes.
amazon , AWS , Cloud Computing , Databases
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Performance troubleshooting on Microsoft SQL Server

Gridlock

Use Microsoft SQL Server diagnostic tools to troubleshoot bottlenecks and other performance problems.
management , Performance , Server , SQL , troubleshoot
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MySQL is gearing up with its own high-availability Group Replication solution

Do It Yourself

Oracle recently introduced Group Replication as a trouble-free high-availability solution for the ubiquitous MySQL.
High Availability , MySQL , Oracle
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What's new in SQL Server 2016

Faster, Safer, Mobile

The focus in SQL Server 2016 is on mobility, cloud usage, and speed, with improvements to in-memory processing and security.
cloud , Security , security , SQL
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Database Tuning

The new PostgreSQL 9.3 release introduces several speed and usability improvements, as well as SQL standards compliance.

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