Know Thy Platform
IT and data professionals, I implore you – know thy platform. All of it. Not just the layer your job is tasked with. Modern public cloud (or any infrastructure...
2024-03-04 (first published: 2024-02-22)
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IT and data professionals, I implore you – know thy platform. All of it. Not just the layer your job is tasked with. Modern public cloud (or any infrastructure...
2024-03-04 (first published: 2024-02-22)
198 reads
You might be able to shave off thousands – or more – in your monthly cloud bills for your critical SQL Servers, all while maintaining or even improving performance....
2024-02-05 (first published: 2024-01-21)
187 reads
SQL Server query developers, listen up! Query execution time is not everything you should be worried about. You need to examine the parse and compilation time for each of...
2023-11-03 (first published: 2023-10-18)
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Database professionals of the world – I have a question. Has your organization defined service level agreements (SLAs) for your data estate? I’m talking specifically the Recovery Point Objective...
2023-10-11 (first published: 2023-09-18)
218 reads
I am overjoyed to announce a momentous occasion – we have officially reached the remarkable milestone of being in business for 10 years! This incredible journey began with a...
2023-09-01
15 reads
Are you bummed that you can’t attend the PASS Data Community Summit conference in-person this November during the week of November 13? There’s lots of reasons to be there,...
2023-08-25
8 reads
My SQL Server on VMware Accelerator boot camp video series is now live on Youtube! There’s no strings attached and no price of entry, so now there’s no reason...
2023-07-17 (first published: 2023-07-07)
368 reads
Heraflux is returning to deliver a new webinar with Rubrik and ActualTech Media titled “How to Secure Your Azure SQL Data.” With Azure SQL Server offerings continuing to grow...
2023-07-12 (first published: 2023-06-27)
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I’m thrilled to announce that the “Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere” 8.0 best practices guide has been released! I’m pleased to have been able to contribute to...
2023-02-23
64 reads
We all (should) know that running SQL Server in hyperconverged virtual environments, both on-premises and in the cloud, has some interesting trade-offs. The biggest is write latency from the...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-25)
641 reads
By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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