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Manage Database Incidents with SolarWinds and Opsgenie
When you’re operating always-on services—such as the databases that power production-facing interactive customer experiences—it can be stressful and hard to diagnose common problems like queries slowing down, locks piling up,…
Why Businesses Don’t Want Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
Did you come here hoping to read a summary of the past 5+ years of my research on self-driving, autonomous vehicles, Tesla, and TNC businesses? Well, you’re in luck… that’s…
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,…
