What is database activity monitoring?
Database activity monitoring uses a set of tools to monitor and report on a database system’s behavior. For 24/7 monitoring and support, we recommend our MMT365 Services. How We Monitor Database Activity Solvaria DBAs have a comprehensive set of monitoring and maintenance practices that ensure your database environment runs at an optimal level, including: Database monitoring tools help track database
What is a database health check?
A database health check is a DBA-run examination of a database system for optimal speed, efficiency, performance, and safety. A healthy database can transform your business. Signs That a Database Health Check is Needed Database health issues often present as long-running queries, frequent error messages, or slow application speeds. If you’re experiencing server issues, downtime, or data loss, it’s time
March 21, 2023
In the driver’s seat: the differences between PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and on-premises
There are four categories in which your data can live – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and on premises. In each category you have different parameters around what you can “do.” Like a driver’s relationship with their car (owning, renting, leasing, or taking a cab), a DBA moves through different relationships with their database based on what type of server they choose.
March 2, 2023
Solvaria celebrates National Women’s History Month
Happy National Women’s History Month! This has been a national celebration since the 1980s; after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project in 1987, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” The country celebrates the contributions women have made to the United States and recognizes the specific achievements women have made
February 23, 2023
Target slow application speeds in Oracle and SQL
The scoop: If you want a car to go faster, what’s your plan to maximize its performance? Sure, you could buy a bigger engine – it makes sense to think the larger the engine, the faster the car. But that’s an expensive upgrade. And is your car even able to handle the engine; the higher speeds, the higher fuel consumption?
February 16, 2023
What a Fractional CIO brings to your business
Picture this – you, in a leadership position, ask your development team to build you a car. They agree (and magically have finessed car-building skills) and get to work. The upside is you’ll have a car built! You asked and you shall receive! The downside is that you’re already set up for failure. Both parties let each other down.
February 9, 2023
The importance of data privacy: best practices, privacy law, and how people open up their companies to data breaches
What is data privacy: There are daily headlines flashing with “data breach” stories. Companies lose money, information, and face every time someone has access to data they shouldn’t. And yet, it keeps happening. Leadership gives access without thinking. Employees share passwords. Little yellow flags turn into waving red ones in the news. And suddenly, your company isn’t saving time and
January 30, 2023
New Year, New IT – best practices for assessing your company’s IT environment
“New year, new me” is a common colloquialism around this time in the season. But how often do we hold ourselves to our New Years resolutions? And how frequently do we bring new goals and a willingness to grow in our workplaces? We pulled up some best practices and questions to ask yourself as you think about running a successful
January 25, 2023
Ways to check your database health, and what a healthy database can do for your business
What is database health:
January 13, 2023
5 Feature Updates of SQL Server 2022
Database server versions come and go; updates ride in and out like predictable tides. SQL Server 2022 is one of the newer updates in the data world, only recently being released to the general public. Here are 5 update buckets in the SQL Server flagship (all unique only to SQL Server 2022) to keep an eye out for: