Exploring briefly the difference between using Amazon Machine Images running SQL Server and using SQL Server instances on Amazon's Relational Database Service.
2020-09-18 (first published: 2018-04-12)
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In this article, we show how we used Database Snapshots as a rollbackup plan for a database migration from one data centre to another. Database Snapshots proved to be the best route since we sould not afford the time a backup/restore approach would take.
2020-08-28 (first published: 2018-12-11)
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An account of a recent encounter we had with a peculiar wait event which was initially misdiagnosed.
2019-09-27 (first published: 2017-10-10)
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Sharing our experience using Data Compression as a space savings option in MS SQL Server 2008
2018-10-19 (first published: 2016-01-18)
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