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Professional SQL Consulting Services: Unlock Your Data’s Full Potential

If you are looking for Microsoft SQL consulting services, it’s key to identify the right partner for your specific needs. Many organizations need help with SQL database operational tasks like performance tuning, troubleshooting database issues, or handling a migration or upgrade. Most SQL consultants offer these services. But businesses increasingly want to master and move […]

5 Steps to Finding the Right SQL Server Consultant for Your Business

Sometimes the need for a Microsoft SQL Server consultant seems to sneak up on you. Your database responsiveness and availability appear to be okay. Then, somewhere in the organization, someone deploys a new database alongside a new application. All of a sudden, you’re having performance and/or reliability issues. What just happened and how do we […]

SQL Server Consulting Services: Maximizing Your Database Performance and Security

As your company becomes increasingly data-driven and you initiate more database projects, your Microsoft SQL Server environment inevitably increases in size and complexity—and so does the trouble a faltering, crashed or insecure database can potentially cause. Degraded performance, malfunctioning SQL processes, corrupted data sets, and other SQL Server challenges demand immediate, expert attention. Having a […]

SQL Server Is Better Than Ever – Blessing or Curse?

As SQL server became a world-class database system over the past two decades, setting a trap for many organizations. Twenty years ago, mission-critical applications were generally only served by enterprise-level database systems (think Oracle and DB2) . SQL Server was reserved for less critical applications because it was not robust enough to handle the throughput, […]

SQL Server Health Check Checklist

SQL injection attacks represent over 65.1 percent of all website application attacks. To prevent your server from becoming a part of that statistic, you’ll need to take action. That way, you can mitigate damages and possibly prevent them. Moreover, you’ll want to enhance your product’s performance to prevent potential bottlenecks. To achieve the above goals, […]

SQL Server Vulnerability Assessment – Keep Your SQL Database Safe With This Microsoft Tool

By now you all know how hackers are having their way with business all over the world. I don’t need to give examples to remind you of that. Some are mentioned here and here and I’ve written a number of blogs about the importance of protecting the database here, here and here. So instead of […]

7 Ways To Improve SQL Query Performance

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] How do you improve SQL query performance? That is a big question, and one that we get asked all the time. There is no one answer, but there is a process that we apply to make a difference in query performance. In this post, I will discuss some of the questions we ask, […]

Database Patch News — March 2021 (Issue 7)

Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

Relational Database Design: It’s All About The Set

The Lost Science Of Relational Algebra And Set Theory I originally wrote this post in 2011. Much has changed in the database technology landscape since then. Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop have gone mainstream, cloud technology and is changing how and where we think about hosting our databases. But relational databases are still relied upon […]