There is perhaps no area within database administration more time-consuming or fraught with difficulty as the need to accurately shepherd the varied and ongoing vectors of change across an ...

Change is never easy. We often resist it even when we know it can lead to positive outcomes. Journalist and author Sydney J. Harris summed up our awkward relationship with change when he stated, “Our ...

The only constant is change. So, get ready for it. Maybe that’s easier said than done. Too often, we, as DBAs, are flooded with change when it comes to database sche­mas, and keeping up with updates ...