Database

Configure Alerts on Deadlock Events

07/05/19 SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) can now detect deadlocks in MySQL, and generate events that you can use for alerting and notification. It’s normal for an AC…

Learn How To Connect Golang to Databases with Database/SQL

07/01/19 We’ve just released a brand-new end-to-end update of our most popular ebook, the Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Intensive Apps with Go. This book has been downloaded …

Can Tesla Cure the 10th Leading Cause of Death in the World With Autonomous Vehicles?

06/24/19 Are you excited for this post? I certainly know I am! If this is the first article you’re seeing of mine and you haven’t read my prior article, “Why Businesses Don’t Want …

Manage Database Incidents with SolarWinds and Opsgenie

06/19/19 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 commo…

Why Businesses Don’t Want Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence

06/13/19 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’…

SolarWinds Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

06/12/19 We are pleased to announce that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) has successfully completed SOC 2 Type II certification. This reaffirms and advances our ongo…

See App Releases Visually with Change Markers

06/06/19 With SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s (DPM) deploy markers, you can quickly and visually identify correlations between releases in your app or infrastructure, an…

Machine Learning and Destroying the Library of Alexandria

05/29/19 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,…

Taming the Database: How Observability Spurs Continuous Delivery

05/22/19 For tech professionals it’s intuitive that higher software delivery and operational performance — SDO performance is a new-ish moniker — yields higher organizational perfo…

Does Data Have Ethics? Data Ethic Issues and Machine Learning

05/10/19 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 ethic…

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

05/01/19 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 Deloitte in the …

Databases 101: Types of Databases

04/30/19 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 informat…