Cloud vs On-premises
Is the cloud better or worse for a workload? One company, BlueSky, has moved on-premises despite their rapidly growing workload.
2024-07-17
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Cloud Computing
Cloud Transformation
There are lots of companies moving databases to the cloud. Steve has a few thoughts on how to evaluate this for your company.
2024-06-21
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The DBAccountant
Are DBAs going to be responsible for financial accounting for cloud resources as a part of their job? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2024-05-06
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The Cloud Database Cost Analysis
Managing costs in the cloud is something many companies are concerned about. Today Steve thinks that technical people will bear more responsibility for this in the future.
2024-03-27
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Auto Renew Subscriptions
Reserved resources in Azure can auto renew now, but Steve isn't sure if that makes our jobs easier.
2024-03-23
82 reads
Re-Evaluating the Cloud
An update from 37 Signals/Basecamp shows their expatriation from the cloud has been a success. Worth reading before you make too many moves to the cloud.
2024-01-10
180 reads
Interesting Aurora MySQL Feature: The Buffer Pool Survives Restarts
Lemme start this off by saying this is probably irrelevant to you. (It’s irrelevant to me, too.)
2024-01-05
Sending resource alerts on Managed Instance using db_mail
One of the biggest issue that you might experience in Managed Instance is reaching storage limit or finding out that you don't have enough CPU. In this case you would need to get the bigger instance; however, this is not instant operation. In this post, you will see how you can monitor resource usage and send email alerts if there is a risk that you might reach the limits.
2023-12-20
Try, Try Again, Until It's Right
A cloud migration for DoorDash interested Steve, primarily because it didn't work, but they were able to back out and try again.
2023-12-15
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PowerShell Commands to Administer Virtual Machines on Amazon AWS - Part 2
Learn about various PowerShell commands that can be used to administer virtual machines on Amazon AWS.
2023-12-04
Blogs
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
Connect With More Clients: Our Partner Directory Has Arrived
By Rob Sewell
The partner directory connects your agency with new customers.
Can You See Who Forced a Plan
I had an excellent group of people in Gothenburg Sweden when I taught there...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
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Output to flat file with no delimiter
Hello all, Is there an easy way to output my records to a flat...
Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
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Question of the Day
Concat Addition
What is the result of this code?
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