Janette Novak is a freelance journalist and consultant who specializes in teaching online business and small business marketing. Previously, Janette owned a boutique marketing agency and served as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Databases are software, but they depend on hardware.

Behind every website, application, enterprise, or any business, research or web content handling with some amount of data there is a database program managing it, and here we have listed the 6 easiest ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...