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Mothers of small children are a specific category of people, united by common interests, problems, and hobbies. Absolutely all mothers are interested in finding new friends for communication, spending time together, and visiting various events. It would be great if new friends were living nearby. The main goal of the Momdezvous mobile application, developed at DB Best, is to unite moms with small children on one social network and provide interesting leisure and activities. Momdezvous is a private social network […]

Remote cameras can be used in various application solutions. Usually, this technology helps with building a local monitoring system for home or office (for example, a baby monitoring system). Besides that, remote cameras can come in handy for the fun and games industry: you can attach the compatible device to drones or other radio controlled toys and control them using a live view from the remote camera. The live video broadcast from one mobile device to another can be carried […]

Many of us regularly use Database Compare Suite — a tool developed by DB Best — for database migration and upgrade projects. This powerful and handy software solution helps confirm successful database migrations by verifying that the data made it to the destination table. Customers reported to us that comparing data between two huge tables simply took too long just to see if they were different. We listened and did something about it. This latest version of Database Compare Suite […]

We are excited to welcome back Sudhir Gajre in his new role of the General Manager, Central Region at DB Best Technologies. Here is a short bio of Sudhir: Sudhir has over 23 years of experience in the Data Management, and Analytics field and a deep Cloud background. He is a 14 year veteran of Microsoft where he was a Data Architect and later a Principal Technologist. He has been with DB Best for 2 years leading our Central Region […]

Mobile applications industry delivers good news: augmented reality (AR), voice control, virtual reality (VR) and other amazing technologies become more and more popular. More importantly, modern smartphones have enough power to process the graphics for AR and VR. You can simply insert your smartphone into an affordable VR headset in order to dive into virtual reality. So, the most part of smartphone users now can access this variety of modern breathtaking technologies. Moreover, these technologies are not expensive and they do not require extra […]

Visiting an exhibition, you may want to use a specific mobile application developed for the particular event. Especially if we’re talking about an airplane show, which tend to cover large areas. During the show, you would definitely like to know exactly where you are, what’s around you, and where else to go. Using map services to implement the previously mentioned features is a fairly simple and common task. But how do we get information about the various exhibits? Well, here […]

On December 20 2016, Amazon released version 1.0.502 of AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT). SCT now provides the integration with Data Migration Service (DMS)  and allows you to create AWS DMS endpoints and tasks. In addition SCT allows you to run and monitor the DMS tasks from SCT. AWS Database Migration Service helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. The AWS Database Migration Service can migrate your data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases. […]

Back in March of 2015, DB Best published a blog post on how to embed Power BI Power View interactive reports into your blogs and websites. Much has changed in Power BI since then to make it possible to easily embed reports into your blog articles. There are now two basic options for embedding reports. Power BI Embedded is a service on Azure for publishing Power BI visuals and uses authentication to make sure users can see the data they […]

When talking about migration from Oracle to SQL Server, we always look for ways to work with our customers to keep costs under control. We recently completed an Oracle to SQL Server migration proof of concept project for a government organization in South America. What made this project unique was the way we used SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) to convert one of eleven Oracle database schemas that were running on a 12-node Oracle RAC cluster to SQL Server. The […]

When a company grows, it’s no surprise that their database stored data grows as well. This is the case for all companies, and our customer, a global retailer in the beauty industry, was no exception. While working on this project, we managed to increase the average speed of query execution by 30x, saved up to 190 GB of memory and freed up 28 GB of disk storage space. Prior to these great results, there was a hard optimization process performed […]