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We’re happy to announce the latest release of Database Compare Suite 4.12. This new version brings several important improvements and bug fixes, including: Improved User Interface Increased Application Performance Functional Innovations Continue reading to learn more about the ultimate DBA tool and discover all of the major improvements implemented in this latest application release.

The goal of DB Best blog is to deliver technical content on various completed projects and researches. Publishing over 100 blog posts per year, we pay great attention to the projects, related to the cloud data platforms in general, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in particular. Some of the AWS customers’ stories attract more attention than others, so, that’s why we decided to collect them in one place. We consider these articles must-read and super useful. Please take a look […]

Sharing our technical experience with the readers, we’ve reached a pretty impressive audience on our blog. So, it was pretty easy to distinguish the most popular AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Support stories. Let’s jump right in and review the most valuable and really important DB Best blog posts on AWS DMS and AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT). We’ve got an impressive series of blog posts, where we talk about the features of AWS Schema Conversion Tool, which […]

One of the world’s largest multimedia content providers was looking for a way to increase the level of user satisfaction by improving the performance of their enormously huge database system. They wanted to leverage operational best practices to increase resiliency/uptime, performance, and scalability at the lowest possible cost. DB Best provided the customer with the day-to-day operational data management services both on-premises and in the cloud, as well as configured the new architecture for their cloud-based system. Discover the benefits […]

Managing data and applications anywhere, we often face the issues related to the migration of huge amounts of data for our customers. So, as the Amazon partner, we received the brand new AWS Snowball Edge for testing purposes and tried to migrate our Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Check out our blog post to learn more about our experience with AWS Snowball Edge.

In this article, we’ll look into how regular data loading jobs can be moved to Redshift using AWS Glue ETL service on a regular basis. Our specific focus is on migrating stored procedure code of Teradata ETL to AWS Glue scripts.

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.9 – Columnstore Indexes If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded session, the recording will be available soon. Don’t miss the next webinar on January 9th: Viewing Query Plans!   The registration link will be posted here when available, In addition, I am publishing a list of the upcoming topics. Please be aware they are subject to change or re-ordering. It’s not […]

Often database administrators experience decreases in query performance with Amazon Redshift as the size of data increases. The problem becomes even more significant when we start talking about regularly executed queries. Design time decisions that were made with the given the statistics at the start of the project may not make sense with the new data and query patterns. So, this means that the Amazon Redshift cluster requires some optimization. See how these Amazon Redshift performance tuning tips can improve query execution […]

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.8 – Data Compression     If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded session, the recording is available here.   Don’t miss the next webinar on December 19th: Columnstore Index Storage!   You can register here,   In addition, I am publishing a list of the upcoming topics. Please be aware they are subject to change or re-ordering. It’s not complete at this […]

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.7 – Partitioning     If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded session, the recording is available here.   Don’t miss the next webinar on December 12th: Data Compression!   You can register here.   In addition, I am publishing a list of the upcoming topics. Please be aware they are subject to change or re-ordering. It’s not complete at this point, […]