I've had to install SQL Server many times over the years. Often it has felt that most of these installs were one-offs, a dev server, a new QA instance, a production server for a brand new application. A few times I've had to recover from disaster, including restoring master, but often, I just installed SQL […]
2021-07-31
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Having a patching strategy for your systems is important, and Steve notes that you ought to be organized and allow for some flexibility when designing one.
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Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Some people take that approach to maintenance windows, but that isn't permissible in the cloud.
2021-04-05
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Databases don't manage themselves, but Steve sees this as an opportunity, not a problem.
2021-03-20
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