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Using Alternatives for the LIMIT Clause in SQL Server

In database management, efficient limiting of query results is crucial for optimizing performance and ensuring the retrieval of relevant data. Many SQL database systems, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, utilize the LIMIT clause to specify the number of records a query returns. However, SQL Server doesn’t support the LIMIT clause, opting instead for alternatives like TOP, OFFSET-FETCH, and SET ROWCOUNT.

Streamline your IT operations: Harness the power of Ansible Automation Platform with OpManager

ManageEngine OpManager now integrates with Ansible, an open-source automation tool, enhancing its network monitoring capabilities with Ansible’s powerful automation features. This integration enables IT teams to automate routine tasks such as incident response and configuration management, reducing the need for manual intervention and providing a more efficient, streamlined approach to maintaining network reliability and improving overall operational performance.

You've finally decided to look beyond Solution Manager - here's what you have been missing

The end is near! That’s right, mainstream support for SAP ECC will be ending in 2027. While this is fairly well known what is less obvious is that this also includes support for SAP Solution Manager. Let’s be honest though, the functional end of life for Solution Manager happened quite a while ago.

Building Operational Resiliency in Higher Education with AIOps

The higher education industry is experiencing significant transformation. Colleges and universities have embedded digital tools across their academic environments to provide exceptional experiences for students, faculty, and staff. As technology becomes more integral to education, maintaining efficient, secure IT operations while ensuring 24/7 availability presents new challenges for institutions to manage.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): A Guide for DevOps & Developers

Managing IT infrastructure has traditionally been a complex, manual process prone to inefficiencies and human errors. IaC directly addresses these challenges by automating the setup and management of IT infrastructure through code. This approach helps to resolve common infrastructure management problems like lengthy deployment times, configuration drift, and inconsistent configurations.

Charmed Kubeflow vs Kubeflow

Kubeflow is an open source MLOps platform that is designed to enable organizations to scale their ML initiatives and automate their workloads. It is a cloud-native solution that helps developers run the entire machine learning lifecycle within a single solution on Kubernetes. It can be used to develop, optimize and deploy models. This blog will walk you through the benefits of using an official distribution of the Kubeflow project.

Ensure high service availability with Datadog Service Management

Adopting a cloud-based, distributed architecture may help your organization scale quickly, but it can also add complexity. Correlating telemetry, security signals, and alerts across services often proves difficult, resulting in slower issue remediation. Additionally, when something goes wrong, figuring out who to contact—for example, the on-call responder or the service owner— may become needlessly time-consuming.

How Fintech Businesses Execute Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring is necessary for finance companies. Whether running a small fintech startup or managing systems for a global bank, having secure, reliable tools to monitor and manage your infrastructure and applications is fundamental for the success and security of your business. This article covers some common monitoring use cases for financial companies and how you can get the metrics you need with an agent. Try signing up for a free trial today!

Rolling your own DevOps metrics

The principle of continuous improvement is central to the practice of observability. Naturally, within the data-driven philosophy of DevOps this implies an ongoing cycle of acting, measuring and improving. For many teams, the classic four DORA metrics are seen as a gold standard. As I discussed in a previous article, whilst DORA metrics are a great starting point for assessing your agile capabilities, they are not necessarily definitive.

Perspectives: Our solution to dashboard sprawl

What if I told you that you're using dashboards wrong? Imagine this: You're on a call with your team, staring at a big, static dashboard full of graphs and numbers. Someone pipes up, "Okay, so what now?" Everyone exchanges glances, unsure of how to move forward. You've got the data, but somehow, you're still stuck. If you’re nodding along, we feel you. The truth is, the way we’ve been using dashboards is outdated. They’re static. They’re rigid.