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Performance analysts gather information related to high transaction volumes, large numbers of users and a full-sized database. The objective is to determine if the application suite and its associated databases can handle large workloads. Load tests give the database administratorLoad testing involves simulating a full production workload in a non-production environment. MORE
Database Administrators must now deal with large volumes of data and new forms of high-speed data analysis. Big Data is here, or will soon be here for the majority of IT enterprises. If your responsibility includes performance tuning, here are the areas to focus on that will become more and more important in the age of Big Data. Source Data Acquisition. MORE
Oracle 12c is Oracle’s latest version of their database engine. Many of these features are great improvements for developers, and some of them are more focused on database administrators. […]. Learn about all of the new Oracle 12c new features for developers in this massive guide. Introduction Oracle 12c comes with a range of new features. MORE
MySQL and PostgreSQL are both very popular open source RDBMS having rich set of administration tools and programming APIs. That is why many businesses and organizations consider migrating their databases from MySQL to Postgres. In general, database migration consists of the following steps: Extract table definitions from the source database in form of DDL SQL statements. Convert these statements into the destination format and load into the target database. MORE
Nutanix Era brings a new approach to database administration that is similarly changing the nature of the DBA role MORE
Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. As a DBA, are you ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards? Where Are You Now? Many DBAs consider themselves already supporting a big data environment. Table sizes in the hundred MORE
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Are you going for a job where you need to know SQL, such as a Database Developer or Database Administrator? Brush up on your interview questions with this extensive list of SQL interview questions. This collection of interview questions on SQL has been collated from my experience with SQL and from various websites. It contains […]. oracle employer interview Oracle SQL MORE
As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources. For example, you can mandate that only Senior Database Administrators in your company can modify â??productionâ?? instances, and finally assigning the AWS IAM policy to your group of AWS IAM users who are Senior Database Administrators. All Things Distributed. MORE
I am also fluent in ten markup languages, 8 frameworks, and seven database languages on six different platforms. The old model view controller paradigm is split up across Web servers application servers and database servers all tied together by some sort of message bus and a network. Your database administrators, who know SQL, will feel right at home with JSON, and pick it up in a heartbeat. Nathaniel Crocker. MORE
“Something else” would have to do it on behalf of the storage array — an administrator, management software, etc. If your operational model defines a dedicated storage administrator, they’re certainly going to want a storage-centric view of their world: what’s on the floor, who’s using it, how is it configured, how is it performing, etc. If you have dedicated availability administrators (data protection, business continuity, etc.) MORE
Database administrators tend to think of SQL tuning as necessary, important, even critical. The reality is that the savings realized by tuning SQL, usually manifested in saved CPU time and decreases in elapsed times, may offset the costs incurred in time and resources. Ask yourself this question: How long have DBAs been doing SQL tuning? My guess is 25 years or MORE
Specialization in particular combinations of operating systems and database management software is common, and this allows some team members to gain in-depth experience that is extremely valuable in an enterprise IT setting. Technical support teams usually support familiar hardware and software configurations. MORE
Provisioning new databases and cloning database requests make up a hefty portion of a database administrator’s (DBAs) workload. As reported in Forrester’s Total Economic Impact survey for Nutanix Era, database provisioning is time consuming, tedious, and often requires additional approvals for new systems to support the new provision MORE
It’s built around the Oracle database and comes with fully automated data warehouse specific features that deliver outstanding query performance. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud does not require database administration. Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud handles creating the data warehouse database, backing up the database, patching and upgrading the database, and growing or shrinking the database. MORE
Nutanix Era brings a new approach to database administration that is similarly changing the nature of the DBA role MORE
Database administrators. The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry. MORE
I'm guessing it's databases, and the applications that use them. If your business is heavily invested in databases, maybe mainstream generic infrastructure thinking isn't doing you any favors. If you're like most enterprises, databases are at the very heart of your business. Statistically speaking, more often than not these are Oracle databases. Now think about all the applications that interact specifically with the database. Databases are different. MORE
SQL is referred to as the Structured Query Language that is meant for accessing databases. SQL could actually be defined as the domain-specific programming language that is used for managing the relational databases and performing diverse operations on the stored data. SQL is actually used and regarded as the standard database language universally by all reputed relational DBMS such as Informix, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB/400, SQL server, and MS Access. Creating new databases. MORE
a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . “IBM is leading the charge in helping its clients take advantage of big data, cloud and mobile,” said Sean Poulley, vice president, Databases & Data Warehousing, IBM. By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. MORE
These Big Data implementations bring their own problems and issues, and will require database administrators and support staff to redesign the data warehouseUsing advanced analytics to analyze business data is common, especially in large companies with many customer-facing systems. As more and more data is made available the enterprise stages large data stores into the enterprise data warehouse. MORE
Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere. MORE
Linux Academy will be launching a Database Administration and SQL Language Basics course, taught by our very own Matt Pearson. It covers installing a fresh instance of MySQL, creating a database and tables, inserting and updating data, editing users and permissions, and a lot more. It’s just what someone wanting to dive into databases needs when they’re getting started. Databases databases learn Multiple MySQL Join MySQL MySQL Join MORE
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database. MORE
Developers understand that specialized enterprise databases can be a crucial success factor. What does the future look like for your business? Read More. MORE
database administration or IBM WebSphere administration), a common expectation today is for engineers to have a deep core vertical skillset and also a broad range of horizontal skills – hence the “T” shape. The following is the fifth blog in a series about software containers and Kubernetes, and their importance in modern application delivery. MORE
He was self-taught, but also took courses at Bellevue Community College to ramp quickly, and over the years worked his way through support, database administration, developer roles, into technical program management, and ultimately into leadership roles. (Photo courtesy of Erik Arnold). MORE
The growth of structured and unstructured data and the need to create value from it has provided database administrators with a huge challenge. Read More. Industry Perspectives MORE
Like management information systems, enterprise resource planning and relational database, big data is now a standard part of information technology architecture for most large organizations. As a database administrator, , I have the following itemsCommon applications include storage and analysis of customer data, web interactions, machine sensor readings, and much more. MORE
For many within the IT world, data modeling conjures up database administrators sitting in room designing tables and relationships. What do you think of when you hear the term ‘data modeling’? Just typing ‘data modeling’ almost made me go to sleep. Who am I kidding…I’m a data geek and this stuff is interesting…but some folks aren’t quite as excited by this stuff as I am. Data modeling has many different definitions and connotations. MORE
The design requirements of an application usually determine the most effective database design and database administration support processes. If, however, the database administrator (DBA) is not present during the requirements definition process, sub-par performance can result. Essential DBA Choices and Processes. Quite often the DBA MORE
and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Amazon RDS offers a monthly uptime percentage SLA of 99.95% per Multi-AZ database instance. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more. MORE
Once upon a time, there was a role known as the database administrator. Back when all data was stored locally, these employees were the keepers of the company database, responsible for making sure all information was accessible and tracking things such as financial information and customer details. MORE
Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Relational database fundamentals, including data relationships, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactions, and the SQL query language, have stood the test of time. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere. MORE
Web administrations are here and there called cloud administrations or remote figuring administrations. The primary AWS offerings were propelled in 2006 to give online administrations to sites and customer side applications. Distributed computing is the on-request conveyance of process power, database stockpiling, applications, and other IT assets through a cloud administrations stage by means of the web with pay-as-you-go evaluating. Databases. MORE
All the enterprise's information lives on storage, so -- theoretically speaking -- shouldn't the storage administrator be in a privileged position to make decisions and tradeoffs based on the value of information? For the vSphere administrator, their abstraction is the virtual machine. The intrinsic value of enterprise information is largely opaque to the virtualization administrator, in much the same way that it's opaque to the storage administrator. MORE
Database Administration and SQL Language Basics . We also provide an overview of the most popular Big Data technologies including core Hadoop, the Hadoop ecosystem (Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Storm, Ambari, Oozie, Zookeeper), NoSQL databases, and Apache Spark. To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills. MORE
Many database administrators (DBAs) function as a team supporting multiple corporate applications on a variety of hardware platforms using several database management systems (DBMSs). Managers struggle with priorities and must juggle user requirements and deadlines against staff availability and expertise. Here is one way to manage DBA tasks based on the makeup of the team. MORE
Several involve MySQL, which is a popular database management system used by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and many more. Creating databases. Database Administration and SQL Language Basics have three new labs: Creating Indexes in MySQL. Last week was all about our container related courses, which you won’t want to miss, so make sure to go take a look at those previous announcements. You can find them on last weeks episode of Weekly Update. MORE
Regardless of the complexity or a database administrator's skill level, these performance tuning tips will serve as a step-by-step guide to solving MySQL performance problems and help alleviate the pain points that often accompany performance tuning. MORE
s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? MORE
Database Administrator. Information Technology Blog - - The Biggest Opportunities in Tech Careers Today - Information Technology Blog. There is no secret that the way we use information and technology has changed the way the world works. That means it needs to factor into the decisions you make concerning the way you work in it. Ignore it at your own peril. With good reasons, careers in technology have risen to unprecedented levels and they will only continue to grow. MORE
Similar to ADW, Oracle’s ATP service focuses on self-tuning, self-securing and self-managing but for OLTP databases. An important part of its autonomous database strategy is its Exadata appliance, which is an scale-out optimized database system. database as a service (DbaaS Oracle recently launched Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service to complement its Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) offering. MORE
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JANUARY 31, 2017
Specialization in particular combinations of operating systems and database management software is common, and this allows some team members to gain in-depth experience that is extremely valuable in an enterprise IT setting. Technical support teams usually support familiar hardware and software configurations.
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Many IT enterprises are starting pilot projects to implement big data solutions. As a DBA, are you ready to support these efforts, and integrate them into your current architecture, processes, and standards? Where Are You Now? Many DBAs consider themselves already supporting a big data environment. Table sizes in the hundred
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NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Developers understand that specialized enterprise databases can be a crucial success factor. What does the future look like for your business? Read More.
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FEBRUARY 3, 2017
Once upon a time, there was a role known as the database administrator. Back when all data was stored locally, these employees were the keepers of the company database, responsible for making sure all information was accessible and tracking things such as financial information and customer details.
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Similar to ADW, Oracle’s ATP service focuses on self-tuning, self-securing and self-managing but for OLTP databases. An important part of its autonomous database strategy is its Exadata appliance, which is an scale-out optimized database system. database as a service (DbaaS Oracle recently launched Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service to complement its Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) offering.
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The growth of structured and unstructured data and the need to create value from it has provided database administrators with a huge challenge. Read More. Industry Perspectives
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Nutanix Era brings a new approach to database administration that is similarly changing the nature of the DBA role
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Database administrators tend to think of SQL tuning as necessary, important, even critical. The reality is that the savings realized by tuning SQL, usually manifested in saved CPU time and decreases in elapsed times, may offset the costs incurred in time and resources. Ask yourself this question: How long have DBAs been doing SQL tuning? My guess is 25 years or
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JANUARY 28, 2017
Performance analysts gather information related to high transaction volumes, large numbers of users and a full-sized database. The objective is to determine if the application suite and its associated databases can handle large workloads. Load tests give the database administratorLoad testing involves simulating a full production workload in a non-production environment.
IT Toolbox
JANUARY 25, 2017
Database Administrators must now deal with large volumes of data and new forms of high-speed data analysis. Big Data is here, or will soon be here for the majority of IT enterprises. If your responsibility includes performance tuning, here are the areas to focus on that will become more and more important in the age of Big Data. Source Data Acquisition.
IT Toolbox
MARCH 20, 2017
Like management information systems, enterprise resource planning and relational database, big data is now a standard part of information technology architecture for most large organizations. As a database administrator, , I have the following itemsCommon applications include storage and analysis of customer data, web interactions, machine sensor readings, and much more.
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Regardless of the complexity or a database administrator's skill level, these performance tuning tips will serve as a step-by-step guide to solving MySQL performance problems and help alleviate the pain points that often accompany performance tuning.
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JANUARY 27, 2017
These Big Data implementations bring their own problems and issues, and will require database administrators and support staff to redesign the data warehouseUsing advanced analytics to analyze business data is common, especially in large companies with many customer-facing systems. As more and more data is made available the enterprise stages large data stores into the enterprise data warehouse.
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JANUARY 22, 2017
Many database administrators (DBAs) function as a team supporting multiple corporate applications on a variety of hardware platforms using several database management systems (DBMSs). Managers struggle with priorities and must juggle user requirements and deadlines against staff availability and expertise. Here is one way to manage DBA tasks based on the makeup of the team.
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Nutanix Era brings a new approach to database administration that is similarly changing the nature of the DBA role
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Nutanix Era brings a new approach to database administration that is similarly changing the nature of the DBA role
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Are you going for a job where you need to know SQL, such as a Database Developer or Database Administrator? Brush up on your interview questions with this extensive list of SQL interview questions. This collection of interview questions on SQL has been collated from my experience with SQL and from various websites. It contains […]. oracle employer interview Oracle SQL
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Oracle 12c is Oracle’s latest version of their database engine. Many of these features are great improvements for developers, and some of them are more focused on database administrators. […]. Learn about all of the new Oracle 12c new features for developers in this massive guide. Introduction Oracle 12c comes with a range of new features.
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Provisioning new databases and cloning database requests make up a hefty portion of a database administrator’s (DBAs) workload. As reported in Forrester’s Total Economic Impact survey for Nutanix Era, database provisioning is time consuming, tedious, and often requires additional approvals for new systems to support the new provision
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Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.
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Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Relational database fundamentals, including data relationships, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactions, and the SQL query language, have stood the test of time. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.
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For many within the IT world, data modeling conjures up database administrators sitting in room designing tables and relationships. What do you think of when you hear the term ‘data modeling’? Just typing ‘data modeling’ almost made me go to sleep. Who am I kidding…I’m a data geek and this stuff is interesting…but some folks aren’t quite as excited by this stuff as I am. Data modeling has many different definitions and connotations.
Galido
MARCH 8, 2017
Web administrations are here and there called cloud administrations or remote figuring administrations. The primary AWS offerings were propelled in 2006 to give online administrations to sites and customer side applications. Distributed computing is the on-request conveyance of process power, database stockpiling, applications, and other IT assets through a cloud administrations stage by means of the web with pay-as-you-go evaluating. Databases.
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
All the enterprise's information lives on storage, so -- theoretically speaking -- shouldn't the storage administrator be in a privileged position to make decisions and tradeoffs based on the value of information? For the vSphere administrator, their abstraction is the virtual machine. The intrinsic value of enterprise information is largely opaque to the virtualization administrator, in much the same way that it's opaque to the storage administrator.
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Database Administrator. Information Technology Blog - - The Biggest Opportunities in Tech Careers Today - Information Technology Blog. There is no secret that the way we use information and technology has changed the way the world works. That means it needs to factor into the decisions you make concerning the way you work in it. Ignore it at your own peril. With good reasons, careers in technology have risen to unprecedented levels and they will only continue to grow.
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Database Administration and SQL Language Basics . We also provide an overview of the most popular Big Data technologies including core Hadoop, the Hadoop ecosystem (Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Storm, Ambari, Oozie, Zookeeper), NoSQL databases, and Apache Spark. To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we are always adding new, free courses and resources for developing Linux and Cloud skills.
All Things Distributed
JULY 7, 2013
As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources. For example, you can mandate that only Senior Database Administrators in your company can modify â??productionâ?? instances, and finally assigning the AWS IAM policy to your group of AWS IAM users who are Senior Database Administrators. All Things Distributed.
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a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . “IBM is leading the charge in helping its clients take advantage of big data, cloud and mobile,” said Sean Poulley, vice president, Databases & Data Warehousing, IBM. By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing.
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It’s built around the Oracle database and comes with fully automated data warehouse specific features that deliver outstanding query performance. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud does not require database administration. Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud handles creating the data warehouse database, backing up the database, patching and upgrading the database, and growing or shrinking the database.
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I am also fluent in ten markup languages, 8 frameworks, and seven database languages on six different platforms. The old model view controller paradigm is split up across Web servers application servers and database servers all tied together by some sort of message bus and a network. Your database administrators, who know SQL, will feel right at home with JSON, and pick it up in a heartbeat. Nathaniel Crocker.
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Several involve MySQL, which is a popular database management system used by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and many more. Creating databases. Database Administration and SQL Language Basics have three new labs: Creating Indexes in MySQL. Last week was all about our container related courses, which you won’t want to miss, so make sure to go take a look at those previous announcements. You can find them on last weeks episode of Weekly Update.
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MySQL and PostgreSQL are both very popular open source RDBMS having rich set of administration tools and programming APIs. That is why many businesses and organizations consider migrating their databases from MySQL to Postgres. In general, database migration consists of the following steps: Extract table definitions from the source database in form of DDL SQL statements. Convert these statements into the destination format and load into the target database.
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JUNE 20, 2019
Linux Academy will be launching a Database Administration and SQL Language Basics course, taught by our very own Matt Pearson. It covers installing a fresh instance of MySQL, creating a database and tables, inserting and updating data, editing users and permissions, and a lot more. It’s just what someone wanting to dive into databases needs when they’re getting started. Databases databases learn Multiple MySQL Join MySQL MySQL Join
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OCTOBER 8, 2015
I'm guessing it's databases, and the applications that use them. If your business is heavily invested in databases, maybe mainstream generic infrastructure thinking isn't doing you any favors. If you're like most enterprises, databases are at the very heart of your business. Statistically speaking, more often than not these are Oracle databases. Now think about all the applications that interact specifically with the database. Databases are different.
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Database administrators. The benefits of honing technical skills go far beyond the Information Technology industry.
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SQL is referred to as the Structured Query Language that is meant for accessing databases. SQL could actually be defined as the domain-specific programming language that is used for managing the relational databases and performing diverse operations on the stored data. SQL is actually used and regarded as the standard database language universally by all reputed relational DBMS such as Informix, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB/400, SQL server, and MS Access. Creating new databases.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.
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He was self-taught, but also took courses at Bellevue Community College to ramp quickly, and over the years worked his way through support, database administration, developer roles, into technical program management, and ultimately into leadership roles. (Photo courtesy of Erik Arnold).
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database administration or IBM WebSphere administration), a common expectation today is for engineers to have a deep core vertical skillset and also a broad range of horizontal skills – hence the “T” shape. The following is the fifth blog in a series about software containers and Kubernetes, and their importance in modern application delivery.
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and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Amazon RDS offers a monthly uptime percentage SLA of 99.95% per Multi-AZ database instance. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more.
Chuck's Blog - EMC
APRIL 15, 2014
“Something else” would have to do it on behalf of the storage array — an administrator, management software, etc. If your operational model defines a dedicated storage administrator, they’re certainly going to want a storage-centric view of their world: what’s on the floor, who’s using it, how is it configured, how is it performing, etc. If you have dedicated availability administrators (data protection, business continuity, etc.)
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MAY 8, 2012
s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ??
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