Partitioning Relational Data – (Part – 3) By Basit A. Farooq This is the third part of the three part article series on partitioning relational data. In the first part of this three-part article series on partitioning relation data, I started the article by giving an introduction to partition relational data along with the reasons why you might want to...

Database Capacity Planning By Craig S. Mullins Most database implementations are anything but static. Once deployed, databases are queried, updated, loaded, unloaded, reorganized, and data is deleted and inserted from them on an ongoing basis. As the data composition of a database changes, it storage requirements will change as well. The DBA must be ever vigilant to plan for future...

Recoverability Trumps Performance By Craig Mullins Many DBAs reading this article will look at the title and immediately think I’m wrong… at least initially. They’ll claim that managing performance is the most important thing they do, but they are confusing frequency with importance. Yes, DBAs confront performance issues more often than they build backup plans – and they better be...

Are your employees professionally engaged? How can you tell if your employees are engaged and motivated? How would you motivate someone who’s driven by "Identity and Purpose"? Professional development series This is Laura Lee Rose, a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. In my GoTo Academy: Soft Skill Tools...