Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...

Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single ...

PITTSBURGH, May 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — At Percona Live Online 2021, OtterTune today announced the private beta of the new OtterTune automatic database tuning service. The system uses machine learning ...

Pythian, already a Platinum member of the OPN, has met a series of demanding technical and business requirements to earn the specializations in Oracle Database 11g, Real Application Clusters (RAC), ...

When non-DBAs think about what it is that a DBA does, performance monitoring and tuning are usually the first tasks that come to mind. This should not be surprising. Almost anyone who has come in ...

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For years, storage sat quietly in the background of enterprise infrastructure. It was necessary but unglamorous, and rarely the centerpiece of innovation. But 2026 marks a decisiv ...