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SolarWinds Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

We are pleased to announce that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) has successfully completed SOC 2 Type II certification. This reaffirms and advances our ongoing commitment to protecting our customers—and…

See App Releases Visually with Change Markers

With SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s (DPM) deploy markers, you can quickly and visually identify correlations between releases in your app or infrastructure, and changes in system behavior. It’s a one-liner…

Machine Learning and Destroying the Library of Alexandria

In my last post, you may have noticed I mentioned “evil” four times, but also mentioned “good” four times. Well, you’re in luck. After all that talk about evil and ethics, I want…

Taming the Database: How Observability Spurs Continuous Delivery

For tech professionals it’s intuitive that higher software delivery and operational performance — SDO performance is a new-ish moniker — yields higher organizational performance, or at least substantially contributes to…

Does Data Have Ethics? Data Ethic Issues and Machine Learning

Welcome to part one in a five-part series on machine learning and artificial intelligence. I figured what better place to start than in the highly contested world of ethics? You…

History of PASS, Part 2: Assembling the Original Board of Directors

Assembling the First Board of Directors for PASS Way back in the waning of the 1990s, I was the lead DBA for SQL Server at the Practice Service Center for…

Databases 101: Types of Databases

With SolarWinds, IT pros are discovering a smarter way to manage apps, servers, databases, and hybrid clouds. The shift starts here. The internet is littered with information, and misinformation, regarding…

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Delivers a Win-Win on Price-Performance

Most organizations are familiar with the constant exercise of prioritizing price or performance, particularly in decisions about technology infrastructure. As businesses become increasingly data-driven, the demand is skyrocketing for fast,…

Essential Capabilities for Applying DevOps to Your Database

Software industry leaders have been trying to define what DevOps is forever. Most top firms say they’re committed to a holistic DevOps philosophy and they’re trying to put it to…

Seven SQL Server Signs the Illuminati Exist

The signs that the Illuminati exist are all around us. You can find their marking on our buildings, on our currency, and even in our music videos. The Illuminati thrive…