A Guide to Backup and Recovery Options for Relational Databases: Focusing on SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB/MySQL, and PostgreSQL

This article discusses the importance of robust backup and recovery strategies for relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB/MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It explores general concepts of backup and recovery, database-specific strategies, advanced backup implementations such as hot swappable databases and cloud storage backups, along with Software as a Service (SaaS) providers for active backup... Continue reading →

Backup Riak – Learning About Distributed Databases :: Issue 001

I’ve got more than a few series in the queue, so why not another one eh! The intent is, I’ll grab a specific topic to break down and add details to related to distributed systems, primarily around Riak. I will however diverge into other distributed databases too, but I’ll primarily be sticking to Riak. Without... Continue reading →