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On Tuesday, June 23rd at 1:00 p.m. ET, we are trying something a little different - a new way for customers and support to discuss topics together. We want to create an open forum where ideas and questions flow freely between you and us. Our first session...
There has been a lot of news about the Conficker Worm in the past week including a segment on 60 Minutes . According to these articles, the Conficker Worm is set to be activated on April 1st. Right now millions of computers could be infected with the...
In my last post , we discussed the importance of backing up your database and we briefly discussed the importance of testing your backups. In this post we will discuss, in more detail, the importance of testing your backups and some ways to achieve testing...
These are the words that some Blackbaud DBAs first hear when starting their position. You've never heard of Blackbaud, don't know what a "BMC" is, and haven't worked with a database program like this before. "Where do I begin"...
This past week support received a call in which one of our client’s servers shut down unexpectedly. Shortly after this shutdown users started to receive error messages in the application and couldn’t work anymore. When they went to restore their database...