Your PostgreSQL database might be handling today’s workload just fine, but what happens when traffic surges, data volume skyrockets, or queries start taking longer than expected? Without the right scaling strategies, performance bottlenecks can creep in, leading to slow response times, reliability issues, and frustrated users. In this guide, we’ll break down the best practices for scaling PostgreSQL, ensuring your …
PostgreSQL vs. MySQL: How to Choose the Right Database for Your Project
The database you choose plays a critical role in the way your application performs, scales, and handles data over time. Two of the most popular open-source relational databases are PostgreSQL and MySQL. While they share some similarities, they also have key differences that could significantly impact your project. In this article, we’ll break down the essential factors to consider when …
Dockerizing an MSSQL Server: Unlocking Flexibility
Docker is a pretty magical tool that streamlines server and environment setup while helping to eliminate the operating system and software version variables. It’s one of the best ways to mitigate the classic ‘Works on my machine!’ obstacle many developers run into when sharing or promoting their code.
When a lot of people think of Docker, the last thing they think of is Microsoft or Windows. It took many years for Docker to even officially support Windows. As a .NET developer, I always wanted the stability that Docker offers, and today, I can have it. In the post below, I’ll dive into how to dockerize an MSSQL Server.
Monitoring SQL Server Agent Jobs with Spring Batch
In this blog post, I will demonstrate a technique to query the status of a SQL Server Agent job that executes the SSIS package. SQL Server Agent scripts are asynchronous in nature. This can make it difficult to make code decisions based on the execution status of a script of this type.
Parameterizing Queries for SQL Server
This is just a short article (more of a blog-ette than a full blog) about some things we as developers need to consider when sending queries to Microsoft’s SQL Server. While some of this information may also be true for other flavors of database servers, these things are known to be true for SQL Server.
