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SUMMARY: Database professionals facing surprisingly slow SELECT MAX() queries on massive SQL Server tables can eliminate costly billion-row Clustered Index Scans by intentionally introducing a non-partitioned Non-Clustered Index to provide the query optimizer a...
SUMMARY: SQL Server 2025 is designed as Microsoft’s AI-ready database platform, integrating machine learning directly into the database engine and leveraging Microsoft Fabric for unified data management. This enables businesses to achieve predictive analytics and...
SUMMARY: Modern database systems, such as Oracle Autonomous Database and Azure SQL Database, embed Artificial Intelligence to streamline operations and revolutionize data management by providing intelligent automation, optimization, and insights right out of the box....
SUMMARY: XTIVIA ensures business stability and peace of mind by providing customizable Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Remote DBA Managed Services, contractually outlining critical performance targets like Response Time and Uptime Guarantees to mitigate downtime...
SUMMARY: XTIVIA’s expert database administrators (DBAs) prevent massive cloud SQL Server budget overruns by deploying optimization techniques like query rewriting and configuration tuning, moving beyond the costly and temporary fix of blindly provisioning more...
Table of contentsWhy DBSAT MattersKey Areas Where DBSAT Aligns with CIS1. User and Role Management2. Password Policies3. Auditing and Logging4. Database ConfigurationDBSAT Reporting: A Goldmine for ComplianceBest Practices for Using DBSATFinal Thoughts As a database...
SUMMARY: Database administrators can successfully resolve the Oracle 19c datapatch ORA-20001 error, which signals an incomplete patch application, by modifying the qopiprep.bat script's shell interpreter and then re-running the datapatch utility. The appearance of...
SUMMARY: XTIVIA's expert DBA team addresses the high costs and persistent performance issues associated with managed cloud databases by implementing strategic, holistic optimization techniques, rather than resorting to costly resource over-provisioning. Simply scaling...
SUMMARY: Database administrators can establish cost-effective, reliable, and scalable cloud-based backups for their Oracle databases by integrating Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) directly with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage using the Oracle Database...
SUMMARY: Database administrators must select between the free, open-source Percona XtraBackup and the commercial MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) to perform reliable hot backups of large MySQL deployments, weighing cost savings against integrated enterprise features and...