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What Do You Do When You Can’t Afford a Full-time Database Administrator?

Datavail

What happens when you need a database administrator but a full-time employee is beyond your reach, or you have less than full-time workloads? Both situations are not ideal and cause issues that include: Poorly optimized database environments. IT staff burnout due to long hours and lack of backup coverage.

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Schedule database backups for MongoDB in a Node.js application

CircleCI

This tutorial covers: Setting up a MongoDB backup for a Node.js Scheduling the backup at a defined regular interval. Database backup protects your data by creating a copy of your database locally, or remotely on a backup server. This operation is often performed manually by database administrators.

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Upgrade Journey: The Path from CDH to CDP Private Cloud

Cloudera

The customer team included several Hadoop administrators, a program manager, a database administrator and an enterprise architect. Review component list and determine any work needed to migrate workloads of deprecated and removed components like Pig, Flume, Yarn Fair Scheduler, Sentry and Navigator. Phase 1: Planning.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Let’s Compare

Datavail

Database management systems can be categorized as open-sourced or closed-source systems. Open-source means that anyone can download and modify the source code of the database technology for free. More scalable due to its open-source characteristics. Databases accommodate any volume of data. Backup and Recovery.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

Companies often take infrastructure engineers for sysadmins, network designers, or database administrators. meets business needs, easily scales up, adapts to new features, utilizes the latest technologies, tools, and services, and. The preferred technologies also matter. How is it possible? Cloud infrastructure engineer.

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Implementing a Data Management Strategy: Key Processes, Main Platforms, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

Data architecture: aligning technologies with business goals. Data models translate business rules defined in policies into an actionable technical data system, Source: Global Data Strategy. Database administration: maintaining data availability. Specialist responsible for the area: database administrator.

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Unstructured Data: Examples, Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

It is commonly stored in relational database management systems (DBMSs) such as SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL, and is managed by data analysts and database administrators. That’s why there must be some sort of data replication, backup strategies, and failover mechanisms. Data security and privacy.