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What Do You Do When You Can’t Afford a Full-time Database Administrator?

Datavail

What happens when you need a database administrator but a full-time employee is beyond your reach, or you have less than full-time workloads? When your database environment has become sufficiently complex that you need professional database administration capabilities but not a full-time DBA, fractional coverage is an ideal option.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The Stack Overflow developer survey results show that about 69.7% The same survey reveals that JavaScript is one of the most desired languages. In a Stack Overflow survey , developers ranked Docker number 2 in the “Most Loved Platform” category and number 1 in the “Most Wanted Platform” category. . Database administrators.

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OtterTune, which taps AI to optimize databases, raises $12M

TechCrunch

Databases are in wide use today, powering the apps that people use every day for work and play. According to a recent Redgate survey , 70% of companies now use more than one database in their stack, including on-premises and cloud databases.

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DB2 Mainframe Catastrophe Diverted with Open System Migration

Datavail

The Strategy – Part 1: Part 1 of the strategy required assessing the status of the new client’s enterprise on the previous vendor’s soon-to-be-decommissioned database server. Organizations aren’t static and your database staffing needs shouldn’t be any different. DB2 Mainframe Migration to Open System.

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Healthy Data

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

To investigate what’s meant by “technical health,” we have begun a series of short surveys to help us understand about what technical health means, and to help our readers think about the technical health of their organizations. The first survey looked at the use of data. Our survey doesn’t say much about the influence of the HIPPO.

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2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

High Scalability

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO

In a recent survey the consulting firm conducted, 75% of respondents said their organizations have already adopted platform engineering, although just 44% have formalized, structured approaches. “We