Swimming to Improve Physical Fitness

After nine years of working as an analyst, Jason Damon is now a self-employed trader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Outside of work, Jason Damon’s hobbies include swimming and participating in triathlons in and around Pittsburgh.

Swimming, which is one event in a triathlon, is one of the best exercises for getting a low-impact workout as it includes cardio and works all of the muscles.

Water makes a person buoyant (it holds the person up), so they naturally will float (if not flailing around wildly). Moreover, because the person is not pounding on the pavement or jumping up and down while swimming, they reduce the impact, and thus stress, on their knees and other joints.

Swimming requires the use of the majority of the muscles in the body. In addition to using the arms and legs in the water, the latissimus dorsi muscle (also known as the swimmer’s muscle) extending from the back to the side of the body assists the person with moving through the water as well.

Finally, swimming is a great cardio workout. It requires the person master breathing by teaching the body to adapt and learn to take in more oxygen while expelling carbon dioxide upon exhalation. The culmination of better breathing is a lower resting heart rate and blood pressure.

Some Common SQL Server Monitoring Tools

The recipient of an MS in health information systems from the University of Pittsburgh, Jason Damon is a former business analyst at Celerity IT in Pittsburgh. Jason Damon has handled critical responsibilities such as database management and system troubleshooting and is experienced in SQL programming language.

The most widely used query language, Structured Query Language (SQL) is used for sending requests (queries) for data or processed information from a database that contains structured data arranged in columns and rows (relational database). Once the data is received it may be assessed or manipulated, and the new changes (if present) can be stored on the database. Such a database is also called a server. Sometimes, problems such as a huge lapse between the time a query is sent and when it reaches the database management system, a delay in execution of newly added changes, the blocking of a query, or the contention of database resources can occur, which are known as server performance issues. Avoiding such situations can be accomplished by deploying an SQL server monitoring tool which helps track the health of the server, and also provides information to address potential performance issues when necessary.

Some SQL server monitoring tools (like Lepidolite SQL Server Auditing) are only compatible with one operating system (in this case Windows). Many others, such as dbWatch Database Control, run on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. Apex SQL Monitor, Alera RMM, SQL Power Tools, dbForge Monitor, and SentryOne SQL Sentry are some other common monitoring tools.