Into May and a big couple of events this week in SQL Nexus and the Powershell Conference EU 2017, looking forward to more blog posts coming out about those events. This week I’ve been reading: –

SQL Nexus 2017 Conference Recap

Sam Lester recaps his experience at SQL Nexus and gives us a summary of the two sessions he presented.

Database backups with DBATools vs Ola Hallengren’s scripts

Nice comparison between two database backup options

Dear McAfee, why are you destroying my buffer pool?

Good post about anti-virus paging out all running process when updating

Azure SQL or SQL Server Database?

Old post but good in that it details the differences between Azure SQL and standard SQL Server databases

The LHC was restarted for its 2017 run

The LHC has been shut down over the winter so that improvements/maintenance can be made. This article details what’s been done and what they hope to accomplish this year.

Have a good weekend!