My presentation from the 2008 MySQL Conference on Top 20 Design Tips for Data Architects has been receiving a lot of traffic lately.
Most recently this presentation was featured on the front page of Slideshare , as well as last month I made the top 10 of Hacker News .
Common benchmark approaches fall into two general categories, synthetic testing and realistic testing. You have the most generic operations from a synthetic test, starting with the most simple example using a single table, a single column, and for a single DML operation.
Read moreTesting and benchmarking are widely used terms in software technology, each serving a distinct purpose and goal. With the increasing adoption of AI in software development, the term evaluating has become significant and with this the re-emergence of what is quality assurance.
Read moreA common data security issue is the unprotected copying of production data to non-production environments without any redaction, masking, or filtering. This practice poses a serious risk. A malicious actor will target the weakest link in your infrastructure, including non-production accounts and the developer systems accessing them.
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