24/10/2024

From Wales to London, Orlando to Stockholm, and beyond, 2025 promises a smorgasbord of data-driven sagas across various locales. Here’s a peek at the not-to-miss database events set to sprinkle some intellectual stardust on your next year’s calendars.

• Blog
• Events
• Microsoft SQL
• Oracle

17/10/2024

What is ACID when it comes to databases? Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability are the pillars that keep database transactions from descending into chaos. These properties form the foundation of reliable database systems, ensuring that every operation follows the rules. That’s how we can handle every failure with precision, and leave no transaction incomplete or in a corrupt state. Without them, the data world would be a mess of half-executed actions, inconsistent records, and data loss that could bring even the simplest system to its knees.

• Blog
• Microsoft SQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL

10/10/2024

Oracle vs SQL Server—two goliaths clashing over the supremacy of database management. These platforms emanate from the venerable houses of Oracle Corporation and Microsoft, respectively. They have evolved through decades, consistently pushed by the relentless pursuit of excellence and the demands of a data-driven world. This ongoing battle shaped their capabilities and influenced a great part of the technological choices of organizations around the globe.

We will get into their origins, architecture, and the nuances that dictate their adoption in various enterprise contexts.

• Blog
• Microsoft SQL
• Oracle

03/10/2024

The concept of the Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture, listed by Gartner as one of the most significant security trends in 2021, 2022, and 2023, conveys a transformational change in how we would fortify our digital frontiers. But what exactly is it about the specifics of CSMA that truly makes them so important in the context of prevailing in our current cybersecurity climate? How are they different from typical security models? What exact benefits does their implementation deliver to contemporary firms wrestling with continuously shifting cyber risks?

• Blog

26/09/2024

Considering the sheer volume of data slugging through the digital pipelines, knowing your indexes shou be your bread and butter. Here, we’re slicing through the thick crust of complexity to expose clustered and non-clustered indexes and their cousins.

Why bother? Because we live at the age of instant grafitication. The speed at which you can retrieve data can be the difference between leading and trailing behind. That’s why we will be going through the ins and outs of clustered and non-clustered indexes and their specialized kin. On they way, keep in mind that each type has a role. For every one there is a specific scenario where its purpose becomes the most obvious.

It’s about knowing who to tap for the performance you crave, at precisely the right moment.

• Blog
• Performance Monitor