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...