I’m sure you’ve seen it – you kick off an ALTER and you get the dreaded “waiting on metadata lock”. In many cases, this is expected if you are actively working on the table. However, I recently had a case with a client where the table being altered was rarely updated and very small […]
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The CTO has issued the decree: “We are moving to the cloud!” Great, so now what do we do? When it comes to migrating from on-premise to the cloud, there are many factors to consider and decisions that need to be made. First (and probably most important) on that list: managed DBaaS or setup […]
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It used to be easy: a company developed a new application, chose a database solution, launched the new application and then tuned the chosen database solution. A team of DBAs looked at the infrastructure as well as the workload and made changes (or suggestions) as needed. The application then stayed in production for years […]
Read moreGeographic information systems (GIS) are used by application developers to incorporate geographic information into their datasets to create apps with cool features such finding the address to the best steakhouse in town or the locations of local points of historical interest (the list is endless). In a nutshell, GIS captures, store, checks and displays […]
Read moreOver the past few months, I’ve seen an increase in the following use case while working on performance and schema review engagements:
I need to store exponentially increasing amounts of data and analyze all of it in real-time.
This is also known simply as: “We have big data.” Typically, this data is used for user interaction […]
