Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud scripting and a rundown of the best tools for automating code in ...

Salesforce is going through one of its biggest outages ever after the company was forced to shut down large chunks of its infrastructure earlier today. At the heart of the outage was a change the ...

Being just one type of database is too limiting these days, so many databases have gone multi-modal. Why be just a key-value store when you can be KV plus graph? Document databases are great, but ...

An introduction to the field of analytics, including the process of identifying an analytics problem in context, identifying sources and acquiring data, preparing data for analysis to address the ...

Salesforce.com Inc. has managed to recover from a database error that saw widespread outages for customers from midday Friday through Saturday morning. The outage had ...

How important is sticking to the script? Important enough that when a script was inadvertently changed last month, Salesforce customers were 'victims' of an outage on one of the company's main servers ...