The Pentagon opened a winner-take-all competition Wednesday for a multibillion-dollar cloud services contract, a move that industry groups representing rivals including Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have said would favor Amazon.com Inc.
Get a wealth of information at a fraction of the impact of conventional collection methods. Foglight’s SQL Performance Investigator (SQL PI) ensures optimal database performance with comprehensive database, storage and virtualization monitoring...
While SCOM server monitoring is great at telling you whether your servers are healthy, it doesn’t provide much beyond that. And, customizing SCOM for a specific domain, such as SQL Server, requires a significant time investment — and still yields...
You’re the Sherlock Holmes of IT, always in demand to solve performance mysteries. But even Sherlock needed Watson to do the footwork for him. In the same way, you need smart tools to keep your database environment running efficiently, so you can...
In this session, we’re setting up a coding crime lab to investigate plan change. Because running SQL statements with the right execution plan is crucial for database performance. But in some cases, due to various reasons, such as object changes...
We’re bringing blocking locks into the interrogation room in this final installment of our webcast series. Blocked SQL statements are a common cause for database performance issues. When an application is poorly written, lock issues can impact the...
The challenge is known as multi-way number partitioning. Given a set of numbers S, representing quantities or weights, and a number of desired partitions, k, divide the quantities into k partitions such that the quantities are as evenly...
