Corporate News

DB Best at Microsoft Tech Expo Portland 2018
December 4, 2018

Join DB Best's BI Developer & Consultant DeNisha Malone also known as The Power BI Queen at the Microsoft Tech Expo event in Portland. The event will take place on Tuesday, December 11, at the Oregon Convention Center. The Microsoft Technology Expo (MTX) is a full day community conference showcasing Microsoft enterprise technologies. This event brings together technology leaders and technical teams to share solutions and best practices. The particular MTX event in Portland will host 25 speakers and 20 sessions. Storytelling with data using Power BI Our own DeNisha Malone will deliver a technical session on the Microsoft Tech Expo Port...

New DBMSys Platform 5.0.4 provides at a glance health status of servers
December 3, 2018

On Monday, December 3rd, 2018, DB Best released an update: DBMSys platform 5.0.4. This release brings a self-monitoring feature for currently running services in the internal status dashboard. Also, DBMSys now allows for ignoring missing cloud benchmarks and provides users with some other updates. What's new in DBMSys platform 5.0.4? First of all, we implemented a totally new Collector Health dashboard, which provides users with access to all instances related to their company environment. Here you can check the state of all running instances at a glance. Then, we updated the GUI of the Collector, which allows for configuring the environme...

DB Best selected as an Amazon QuickSight partner
December 3, 2018

We are proud to announce that Amazon has selected DB Best as an Amazon Quicksight partner. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for users to deliver beautiful data-driven insights. With Amazon QuickSight, you can get the most out of a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service. Learn how DB Best can design a cost-effective BI solution in the Amazon cloud for your business needs. In addition to that, we offer the one-day Amazon QuickSight workshop. You can read the blog post from our Senior Solution Architect Jen Etzler which covers DB Best's experience with Amazon QuickSight. In...

DB Best Releases Database Compare Suite 4.13
October 4, 2018

DB Best announced a release of the new version of Database Compare Suite. What’s new in Database Compare Suite 4.13? First, we added the support of Apache Cassandra. This free and open-source database management system became the first NoSQL platform supported by Database Compare Suite. The most important thing is that now Database Compare Suite allows for comparing data between Cassandra NoSQL database and any other relational counterpart, supported by Database Compare Suite. Also, you can run the schema comparison operation between Cassandra and SQL Server databases. Of course, Database Compare Suite supports both data and schema operatio...

DB Best selected as an AWS Database Ready Enablement Partner
September 12, 2018

We are proud to announce that Amazon has selected DB Best as an AWS Database Ready Enablement Partner. DB Best was specifically selected to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) running solutions on SQL Server to move their solutions to Amazon Aurora. The AWS Database Ready program enables software vendors to modernize their software to support Amazon Aurora and RDS database engines. What is AWS Database Ready Program? Under this program, Amazon Consulting Partners will help independent software vendors (ISVs) modernize their products to run natively on Aurora and/or RDS. AWS recognized DB Best as an AWS Standard Partner on July 29, 2...

DB Best website redesign
September 6, 2018

We are happy to announce a major website design update. Today, we deployed a completely redesigned corporate DB Best website. This update brings the following improvements: responsive markup widescreen template up-to-date WordPress engine After implementing these improvements, we can count on increased website performance and better customer experience. The website content remains unchanged, while the most important changes improve user experience and satisfaction. We encourage everyone to take some time to look through the updated website and share the link on your social networks....

DB Best team at SQLSaturday 778 at Memphis, TN
September 4, 2018

On October 6 the DB Best team will attend SQLSaturday 778 at Memphis, TN. Our own Jandee Richards will deliver a session on Azure Databricks 101. In her session, Jandee will cover the history of Azure Databricks, review capabilities, and discuss use cases & best practices. The session will also show you how to get started with Azure Databricks with a demo on setting up your first Azure Databricks Cluster using a data streaming example. Also, DB Best's DeNisha Malone will talk about Best Practices for Power BI Desktop. What are some do's and dont's when developing reports and dashboards in Power BI? This quick session will change the w...

DB Best sponsors SQLSaturday 780 at Kharkiv, Ukraine
September 3, 2018

DB Best sponsors SQLSaturday 780 conference at Kharkiv. The event will be held on On September 22, 2018, at Fabrika space. The event will host multiple speakers from Ukraine, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and Poland. Our own Andriy Pogorelov, who is the organizer of the particular event, will deliver a session on SQL Server Transaction Log Internals. Event highlights A glimpse on other sessions: Analyzing 100 billion rows in 30 seconds with Google BigQuery Azure Data Lake. Tips and Tricks for your big data solution Encryption in SQL Server If a machine can learn, why can't YOU learn Azure Machine Learning? The Right Database for Microservices So...

DB Best updates DBMSys platform to version 5.0.3
August 28, 2018

On Tuesday, August 28, DB Best released an update of the DBMSys platform 5.0.3. This release brings missing cloud benchmarks to the DBMSys platform and provides users with a number of important updates. What's new in DBMSys 5.0.3? Here's the list of the new features implemented in DBMSys platform 5.0.3: Data Collection and Data Forwarding Statuses on Collector UI Added the ability to import collected data for super admin Created MySQL tests for Data Management Optimization Optimized the batch process Added the anonymous type of authorization for smtp server Price grabber bug fixing DBMSys leverages your own environmental data to allow for in...

DB Best sponsors the Microsoft Digital Transformation Academy Event on September 12-14 in Las Vegas
August 23, 2018

DB Best will be sponsoring the Microsoft Digital Transformation Academy (DTA) Event, taking place on September 12-14 in Las Vegas, NV. This year DTA will host more than 5,000 Microsoft US executives, sellers, partner managers, and marketing staff in one location. DTA provides the great chance to learn about Microsoft US-focused transformation priorities, programs and actions. DTA is an opportunity for Microsoft and partners to convert that understanding into action by creating joint pipelines, go-to-market plans, and co-sell opportunities. At the DTA, you can get access to hands-on learning and pipeline generation. DB Best sees a great opport...