Introduction Database security and protection have become increasingly important as we continue to use more data in nearly every aspect of our lives. The best practices for database security are constantly evolving, and it can be tough to keep up with the latest features and recommendations. Let’s take a little refresher course and look at … Continued
Introduction What can you do every day to better manage the infrastructure of your database? That’s a question that many database administrators (DBAs) must ask themselves. The act of putting into effect database administration best practices isn’t accidental. The more thought you give to the following questions, the more positive changes you’ll make on purpose. … Continued
Introduction Change is the only true constant in the ever-evolving world of data-driven technologies. Every year new technological advancements grow by leaps and bounds, changing the way databases are both administered and accessed. In fact, changes happen so fast that last year’s juggernaut is today’s dinosaur. Often times theses new technologies take a while to … Continued
Introduction If you’re a DBA, you know that your role comes with a seemingly endless to-do list. The average DBA performs a wide range of duties: designing databases, optimizing performance, backing up data and handling security are just a few of the typical items on a DBA’s plate. While all of these tasks are critical … Continued
Introduction Database administration is always striving to change for the better. As organizations continue to rely on the information they gather from customer profiles, product inventories, and more, they are also beginning to get a glimpse of the untapped potential of what’s in store for database administrators (DBAs) and the database management systems (DBMSs) that … Continued
Introduction Many Elasticsearch functions are provided by official or third-party plugins based on the Elasticsearch AbstractPlugin class, so you can register some common and useful plugin for future use. In this article I will provide you with an Elasticsearch plugin list and their functions and integrations. Plugins can be extended in a custom way to … Continued
Introduction If you’d like to use the popular Go programming language to interact with your MongoDB instance, you may be wondering how to get started. Fortunately, the MongoDB Go driver makes this task a simple one. Installing the driver only takes a moment, and it’s easy to connect Go to MongoDB with just a few … Continued
Introduction If you’d prefer to use a visual interface when you perform MongoDB operations, Robo 3T may be a natural choice for you. Robo 3T, formerly known as Robomongo, is a free, open-source GUI for MongoDB that’s fast and efficient to use. Unlike other MongoDB user interfaces that simply emulate the Mongo shell, Robo 3T … Continued
Introduction In the previous section of this tutorial, Part 3, we showed setup a more realistic GraphQL API using custom a custom Blog type we defined. We were able to both create and retrieve blog entities but they were stored in a global variable and not actually saved in a database. In this Part 4 … Continued
Introduction When a call is made to query documents, MongoDB returns a pymongo.cursor.Cursor object containing data about the query’s results. This cursor object has an attribute method called sort() that allows for the sorting of MongoDB documents and the data to be iterated and organized either alphabetically or numerically, making the iteration process more efficient. … Continued
