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• Holistic approaches to query performance analysis

  
  I'd rather play golf — Authority: 108
  Despite our efforts at making relational database systems such as SQL Anywhere self-managing, self-tuning, and self-healing, there remains the need to be able to diagnose and repair performance problems. In part, this requirement is due to the overall complexity of the optimization task. Query optimization is – ...
  1 week ago

• Disk failures in the real world

  
  I'd rather play golf — Authority: 108
  One thing that the sheer scale of the computing landscape has contributed to the field of Computer Science is the opportunity to study these systems statistically – and in particular to prove or disprove various aspects of hardware and software reliability. With respect to disk drives, several large studies of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obfuscating your SQL Server Data

  
  Simple Talk rss feed — Authority: 538
  If you are required to use real production data to test applications, any sensitive data should be "disguised" before loading it into the development environment. Although there are tools to generate convincing test data, it occasionally happens that the variances and frequencies within data cannot easily be ...
  3 weeks ago

• New versions of phpMyAdmin close security holes

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  The H Open: "A security update has been released for the phpMyAdmin database administration tool."
  3 weeks ago

• Five Simple Database Design Errors You Should Avoid

  
  Simple Talk rss feed — Authority: 538
  Anith follows up his highly successful article Facts and Fallacies about First Normal Form with a fascinating discussion of five common database design errors which persist in spite of the fact that the unfortunate consequences of their use is so widely known. It is a needy reminder to anyone who has to design ...
  3 weeks ago

• Honeycombing a Database

  
  Simple Talk rss feed — Authority: 538
  In this article, taken from Chapter 9 of his new book, Protecting SQL Server Data, John describes how to set a "honey trap" for would-be data thieves, allowing the DBA to identify the precursors of an attack and respond quickly and also to better understand the techniques being used to breach existing security ...
  8 weeks ago

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