We talked about availability and security best practices on Amazon RDS. Completing the series of posts, today we will learn about Migration on Amazon RDS using SQL Server. In this article, best practices will be defined for the Native Backup/Restore and AWS data migration service. But let’s first learn what Amazon RDS is. Why do you even need to migrate to Amazon RDS? And what benefits does it contain for you? What is Amazon RDS? Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is an Amazon Web Services managed SQL database service. Amazon RDS assists with database management chores like migrat ..read more

If you, like other software professionals, think that RDBMS settings can be left as default for improved SQL query performance tuning, then you are wrong.  Default RDBMS settings are far from being the optimal ones and not optimizing can result in performance issues. The good news, however, is that you can improve SQL query performance with little to no technical knowledge.  Despite being indispensable, SQL performance tuning is a rare skill for software teams to have. So, today I will let you know some essential techniques that never change to make your queries run faster in the Mic ..read more

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We talked about availability and security best practices on Amazon RDS. Completing the series of posts, today we will learn about Migration on Amazon RDS using SQL Server. In this article, best practices will be defined for the Native Backup/Restore and AWS data migration service. But let’s first learn what Amazon RDS is. Why do you even need to migrate to Amazon RDS? And what benefits does it contain for you? What is Amazon RDS? Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is an Amazon Web Services managed SQL database service. Amazon RDS assists with database management chores like migrat ..read more

If you, like other software professionals, think that RDBMS settings can be left as default for improved SQL query performance tuning, then you are wrong.  Default RDBMS settings are far from being the optimal ones and not optimizing can result in performance issues. The good news, however, is that you can improve SQL query performance with little to no technical knowledge.  Despite being indispensable, SQL performance tuning is a rare skill for software teams to have. So, today I will let you know some essential techniques that never change to make your queries run faster in the Mic ..read more

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