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AlwaysOn Availability Groups

AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a database mirroring technique for Microsoft SQL Server that allows administrators to pull together a group of user databases that can fail over together.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 is a SQL-based relational database management system released by Microsoft for general availability on June 1, 2016. It supports transaction processing, data warehousing and analytics uses and provides new and updated features with a 'mobile first, cloud first' approach.

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rollback

A rollback is the undoing of partly completed database changes when a database transaction is determined to have failed.

Heat map view sets table for food warehouse optimization

Inspired by the vivid views of stadium heat maps, a Midwest food distributor worked with Information Builders to gain a better ...

Streamlining predictive analytics in retail marketing

Online flash-sale retailer Zulily uses BigQuery and Tableau to help power its predictive analytics, which, in turn, boosts its ...

Airbnb, Univision highlight best practices in BI

At the Real Business Intelligence conference, Airbnb and Univision execs presented some of the BI strategies their organizations ...

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Rackspace colocation program hosts users' legacy servers

Rackspace now has a managed colocation program that it hopes to upsell its customers with additional services, once their servers...

Broadcom acquisition of CA seeks broader portfolio

Broadcom has acquired CA Technologies in a move some believe is largely financially motivated, while others see an opportunity ...

Ten Linux process management commands that simplify admin workflows

If you work in Linux, chances are you have to do some process management. Here are some commands to simplify that workflow.

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Chief data officer role: Searching for consensus

The chief data officer role is about many things -- regulations, innovation, AI and more. Consultant Randy Bean discussed the ...

How graph data modeling can help evaluate database tools

Mapping data to a graph model can be challenging -- but it can also help an organization create prototypes to evaluate graph ...

eHarmony hooks up with Redis NoSQL database for hot storage

The Redis key-value store finds use in a system to match would-be romantic partners on dating site eHarmony, which employs a ...

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Assess AWS serverless costs and learn how to reduce them

Serverless architectures help teams deploy to production faster but also introduce an entirely new cost structure. Use this ...

Master AWS CloudFormation templates with these five tips

AWS CloudFormation enables businesses to automate much of their cloud infrastructure. Read this expert advice to ramp up with the...

Breadth of AWS features acts as a double-edged sword for IT

AWS offers a wide variety of cloud tools but, in some cases, still lacks the core IT management and ops features that enterprises...

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The future of SPARC/Solaris is cloudy -- in multiple ways

Cutbacks by Oracle have put the future of SPARC and Solaris in doubt, but the vendor says it's still committed to the ...

How Oracle DBA responsibilities change with Autonomous Database

Oracle's Autonomous Database automates basic tasks of database administrators. That may put some DBA jobs at risk, but many will ...

AI-for-IT-operations tools map Vegas systems to Oracle ERP

Mapping IoT activity and other IT data to Oracle ERP is the task Las Vegas set for FixStream's AIOps platform in an effort to ...

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Endpoint security tool fueled OpenText's Guidance Software acquisition

Endpoint security was the primary draw for OpenText's Guidance Software acquisition. But plans to improve e-discovery and data ...

Digital transformation benefits follow a not-so-fast track

Choosing among the many digital transformation strategies in the content management sphere is not easy but can pay off when ...

Customers, vendors differ on digital transformation definition

Digital transformation may be the talk of the analyst sphere and the marketing domain, but people using the technology aren't ...

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July Patch Tuesday brings three public disclosures

Microsoft resolved three public disclosures and updated its Spectre and Meltdown advisory this July Patch Tuesday. In total, ...

Authenticating email in Exchange for brand protection

With help from the combined use of the SPF, DKIM and DMARC technologies, Exchange administrators can curb email spoofing to ...

Taking stock of Windows Server management tools

Microsoft provides a mix of server management tools that administrators can choose from to control the machines that run the ...