The MySQL community is a hotbed of free, open source tools to enhance the performance and health of your MySQL systems MySQL is a complex system that requires many tools to repair, diagnose, and ...

CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

Me again. By know you guys probably figured out my strength isn't in hardware <BR><BR>Anyway.....<BR><BR>I came in Monday morning to find that our SQL server running SQL 2000 was hung. I have a ...

MySQL 5.1 was released by Sun Microsystems in April, but I decided to test it out this month. I downloaded the Windows version of this open source database management app and gave it a spin. The setup ...

With over two decades of IT experience, Microsoft data platform MVP Thomas LaRock has seen nearly every SQL Server troubleshooting nightmare under the sun. In an upcoming session called "The Top 5 ...

It all depends on how much the company is able to afford- you did say it's a smaller company and they generally can't afford as much. Just make sure there's a 1 hour minimum.