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)
191 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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container...
Businesses are drowning in data, but starving for insights. That's where SQL experts swoop...
By Brian Kelley
The bottom line here is this: the idea that a CSP takes care of...
I have joined a new project, where the business uses Azure SQL Hyperscale for...
Dears, Hope this message finds you well I did not see in this foruns...
The below code works for backup files only from local drives. When replaced with...
What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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