As a heterogenous company, I get a lot of questions on what database platforms are important, why and if we should invest in them. When looking at some of the lists and some of the marketing, it can be a bit overwhelming. Now I’m not going to promise to take all of the confusion out of the myriad of database platforms out there, but I’m hoping to help with what’s relevant. Ranking So let’s take a look at what is in the list of top databases engines in the industry per db-engines.com. The reason I use this site as my main…
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I’m a Leaf on the Wind, Watch How I Soar. This is one of my favorite lines from the movie Serenity. Without Alan Tudyk’s character dying and all at the end of this, (sorry if I ruined the movie for anyone…) this is how a DBA should be in the database environment- skilled, reliable and maybe a little off our rockers. Our job is to protect the data, the database and all of the database. With that said, I’m going to list my Ten Rules of Database Administration. Fixing a performance problem with hardware is the best way to guarantee the return…