I find it amazing how much opportunity and flexibility cloud environments are creating for organizations of all sizes. I’m seeing more and more companies experimenting with open-source software (OSS) relational database systems, which years ag...
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How Do MySQL Indexes Work? An In-Depth Tutorial on Creating Clustered and Secondary Indexes and The Effect on Database Performance
MySQL is the most used database in the world. And as it continues to grow in popularity as an open-source database system for developers, understanding how these indexes work is an important step for database developers and administrators. This tuto... -
How DBAs are Using SolarWinds DPM and Marginalia to Reduce MTTR
Database performance is critical to business revenue. Slow and non-responsive databases can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue from poor customer experience and downtime. High expectations in performance require I... -
What We're Working On for DPM (Updated: August 2, 2022)
Your comments and feedback are always welcome and have been vital in shaping SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) into the product it is today. We’re always listening, so please forward your feature requests, problems, and use cas... -
RDS “Gotchas,” How to Identify Possible Throttling on RDS, Leveraging CloudWatch Metrics Through DPM
While testing some different query workloads against AWS RDS MySQL, I encountered an interesting issue. The first issue I noticed was my top query by total time is now going slower than it previously was with no changes in query workload. In this a... -
SQL vs. NoSQL Databases
A relational database management system (RDBMS)—often referred to as a SQL database because of the Structured Query Language (SQL) used to interact with it—has long been the gold standard for storing transaction-based data. Since the 1970... -
What We're Working On for DPM (Updated: March 15, 2020)
Here is a partial list of the things we are currently working on. Your comments and feedback are always welcome and have been vital in shaping Database Performance Monitor (formally Vividcortex) into the product it is today. We are always listening, ...
