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Ensuring the performance and availability of your Azure Managed SQL databases is crucial for maintaining a smooth user experience and maximizing business productivity. Azure Monitor offers a robust suite of monitoring tools, but navigating the vast array of metrics...
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Commvault, a comprehensive data protection and management solution, integrates with MySQL databases for backup operations. It leverages MySQL's binlog positions to ensure consistent and efficient backups of MySQL databases. By tracking the binlog positions, Commvault...
Maintaining peak performance and robust health for your AWS RDS for SQL Server instances is crucial for any SQL-driven application. Enter CloudWatch, your AWS monitoring powerhouse, armed with a plethora of metrics. But navigating this vast realm can be daunting. Fear...
PostgreSQL, commonly referred to as Postgres, is an open-source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) known for its extensibility and compliance with SQL standards. It has been actively developed for over 35 years and has earned a solid reputation...
You might see this error if trying to perform a logical backup on a table that is corrupted. mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show create table `table`': Table 'table’ is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed (144) This error occurs because mysqldump...
Are you getting this error when trying to perform a backup using Commvault? Received failed message for job [49398567], phase [Transaction Log]. Backup of [~database_name~] MySQL database failed. The error message [~mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'show table status like...
If you need a High Availability (HA) setup to balance connections to your MariaDB cluster nodes, you should consider using HAProxy. HAProxy set up in a dual configuration (primary and secondary) will further contribute to your redundant HA topology. This blog is...
For IT professionals, managing a sprawling network of servers can feel like navigating a dense jungle. Keeping track of individual servers, ensuring their proper configuration, and performing maintenance tasks can quickly become overwhelming. Fortunately, Microsoft...
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) for MySQL is a fully managed database service designed to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of MySQL databases in the cloud. The service is an attractive option because of its high availability and durability...
Leveraging the right tools at the right time is crucial for optimizing performance, ensuring data integrity, and simplifying development processes. Two critical components in this landscape are MySQL functions and stored procedures. While both offer ways to...