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Better Together: Experience Snowflake With Certified Devart Connectivity Solutions

Devart’s joining Snowflake Partner Network Technology Select Tier is a highly anticipated milestone that will positively impact the experience of those who choose to work with Snowflake and look for extended connectivity solutions that perfectly sync with this platform. There are many connectivity solutions on the market, but only some of them provide full compatibility with Snowflake data types, support Snowflake standard SQL expressions, or are fit for ETL.

What's Happening in the Caching World: Redis, Valkey and DragonFly

In the world of software development, caching is a crucial yet complex component. What happens when one of the most popular caching systems, Redis, changes its license, sending shockwaves through the community? And how does a company pivot to not one but two solutions to ensure high-performance data management? Today's discussion dives deep into one of the most critical and often-overlooked components of the software industry—caching.

Why Perform Database Recovery Tests?

The top query from database administrators is: what is this database for, and why do I care? The life of a DBA is one of infinite gifts, even if those gifts are unwanted. If you've ever had an application owner drop a database in your lap, then this session is for you. Hear from professionals who have dealt with this problem time and time again. Spoiler alert: better tooling gives you and the application owner the insight they need to make informed decisions.

Marking deployments in Redgate Monitor 14

Redgate Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With RedgateMonitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. Redgate Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.

How the Financial Services sector is moving to the cloud, and what it means for monitoring

Redgate recently published the 2024 State of the Database Landscape report, which explores how the challenges for data professionals now encompass a lot more than managing and monitoring their database estates for high availability and optimum performance. Database DevOps, multiple database platforms, the cloud, AI, and making data available for development and testing have now also become part of the daily conversation.

Introduction to Managed Monitoring

Monitoring, in the context of software, is a catch-all term for visibility into infrastructure, or an application. It can encompass metrics, logs, traces, and any other telemetry data that provides information on a running application, server, or another device. Monitoring helps you catch problems before your customers do and speeds up the time to resolution for any problems that do slip through. Managed monitoring is where another company runs part or all of your monitoring system.

Difference Between Views and Tables in SQL

Businesses widely use relational databases because their ability to structure data makes it much easier to manage. Tables and views, among other database objects, can often be found within such a database. In this article, we will discover the fundamental differences between these two concepts in SQL databases, their characteristics, use cases, and how they impact data management and security in your database projects.