Summary This blog outlines the essential building blocks of a disaster recovery plan, emphasizing the importance of defining scope, recovery time objective (RTO), and recovery point objective (RPO) to prepare for various types of disasters. Table of...
Database Blog Posts
How Can a DBA Use AI to Improve Their Efficiency?
Summary This blog offers a real-world account of how AI for DBA can be a powerful partner for advanced database administration tasks, from debugging complex stored procedures to unraveling restore scripts. Table of contentsSummaryBeyond Basic Queries: Untangling a...
Modernizing Education: How Sweetwater Union High School District Partnered with Virtual-DBA for Database Success
SUMMARY: XTIVIA's Virtual-DBA service enabled the Sweetwater Union High School District to overcome the challenges of an outdated database by successfully migrating its legacy Oracle system to SQL Server. The district decommissioned its expensive legacy Oracle system,...
Navigating the Cloud Database Maze? Let XTIVIA Be Your Guide
SUMMARY: XTIVIA provides expert cloud database management services to help businesses optimize costs, enhance security, and ensure peak performance for their cloud and hybrid database environments. Cost Optimization: XTIVIA’s DBAs help right-size resources and prevent...
Using Analyzer for EBS Performance and Statistics
This blog will walk you through how to prepare your EBS environment, run the analyzer, and provide an overview of the results. We’ll also share XTIVIA’s hands-on experience running this analyzer in a test EBS instance.
Don’t Let Your Data Fall Through the Cracks: Why Every Business Needs a DBA (Even in the Cloud!)
SUMMARY: This guide explains why a Database Administrator (DBA) is essential for ensuring the performance, security, and cost-efficiency of your business data, whether it resides in a cloud or self-managed environment, and how XTIVIA's Virtual-DBA services offer a...
Cloud Database Goldilocks Zone: Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, Just Right (With XTIVIA’s Help!)
SUMMARY: XTIVIA's Virtual-DBA service helps businesses resolve common cloud database provisioning challenges by finding the optimal balance between performance and cost. Avoid Over-provisioning: Businesses often over-provision cloud databases by adding excessive...
Expert Cloud Database Management: Unlock Peak Performance & Savings with a Virtual-DBA
SUMMARY: Leveraging Virtual-DBA for expert cloud database management allows businesses to unlock peak performance and significant cost savings by outsourcing complex administrative tasks Virtual-DBA provides access to a team of specialized experts at a fraction of the...
XTIVIA’s Guide for Cloud vs. Self-Managed Databases: Top 5 Reasons to Migrate and Not to Migrate
SUMMARY: Choosing between cloud and self-managed databases is a pivotal strategic decision for any business, requiring a careful evaluation of trade-offs between agility, cost, security, and control. • Migrate to the cloud for unmatched scalability, reduced...
Cloud Database Over-Provisioning: What You Need to Know
Table of contentsArticle SummaryIntroductionWhat is Over-Provisioning?The High Cost of Over-ProvisioningExamples Across Cloud PlatformsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Avoiding Over-Provisioning Article Summary This blog explains...