As a database developer or DBA, you’ve lacked the proper tools to help you keep pace with the rest of your organization. You’ve watched your app-developing colleagues across the hall use agile to whiz through product releases and embrace DevOps to automate…
Auditing an application of its users’ activities can be useful and at times a mandatory task in tightly-secured environments. Spotlight has many robust capabilities such as deleting or disabling connections to changing alarm threshold values or stopping…
Let’s face it: We can’t all be the kind of hero who saves the world. But as a database administrator, if you could simplify database migrations and upgrades in your company, wouldn’t that make you a hero with your users and co-workers?…
To all you DBAs and database performance monitoring enthusiasts out there: Have you gotten your copy of the survey The Real World of the Database Administrator yet?
In my previous post, I highlighted several facts of DBA life noted in the survey, including…
“How can I cook when they’ve taken my kitchen away?”
Like the man in the photo, you may have to ask yourself that question now that Oracle Streams has been deprecated. If you depended on Oracle Streams for moving data in your database…
As a DBA, would you say that your database performance monitoring tasks are getting any less complex?
I thought not.
We commissioned a study called The Real World of the Database Administrator for a closer look at the facts of DBA life. In this post,…
SharePlex 9.0 is the most exciting and feature rich release of SharePlex I’ve ever been a part of.
Our frenemies over at Oracle with GoldenGate have been working to create fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about the future of SharePlex by telling…
This release of Toad Intelligence Central includes the following new features and enhancements.
I meet a lot of database developers who have agile envy. Are you one of them?
Do you see your counterparts on the application development teams scrumming and sprinting their way to shorter product cycles? Do you watch app developers release 25 updates…
...So you can start building a water weenie.
Sure, you can spend your whole summer working on SQL Server performance tuning, but wouldn’t you really rather build and operate your own water weenie, like Windell here?
I thought so.
Windell is a…
If you've been noticing that you're not getting deadlock email alerts from Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise even though alarms are popping up in Spotlight itself, then this workaround might be for you.
Before you move on though, I am assuming…
A multi-functional tool to manage user settings and assist in troubleshooting.
How many times have you fixed your Toad for Oracle’s settings the way you want it and would like to: As Toad for Oracle users, we know that Toad for Oracle is all about…
Toad™ Data Modeler 6.0 is a major release with new features and functionality.
Toad™ Data Modeler has always enabled its users to reverse engineer database structures, update models, design and generate SQL, compare models along with other…
It’s crazy - technology and business are moving faster than ever and you’re sprinting just to keep up. Meanwhile, your workday is wasted on tons of repetitive, day-to-day tasks. That’s why we hosted a Virtual Tradeshow.
The bad news…
