All the Costs of Downtime
Downtime causes a lot of problems, not all of which are financial for an organization.
2025-09-22
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Disaster Recovery (DR)
Responding to a Disaster
A few recent disasters inspire Steve to remind you to prepare now, before a disaster occurs.
2024-08-02
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It’s a recovery strategy, not a backup strategy
I’ve talked about it before; you shouldn’t have a backup strategy, you should have a recovery strategy.
2024-07-29
2024-04-03
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2024-03-21
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Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022
We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022.
2023-12-01
A Staffing Disaster
An Azure datacenter had a failure after an incident, partially because they didn't have enough people. Steve notes that staffing is a challenge in many ways.
2023-09-29
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How Many Days Can You Survive?
A disaster in LA affected many companies, some of which were innocent bystanders to the event. Steve talks about the need to have some plans in place.
2023-06-05
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Three Mile Island And Your Databases
Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.
2022-08-06
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How Often Do You Update During Issues?
When a disaster occurs and your staff is working on it, what cadence of updates should your customers expect?
2022-08-01
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Blogs
PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Slides and Code
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Thank you for attending my PASS Summit 2025 session Answering the Auditor’s Call with...
Tech Conferences and Expanding Your View
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Tech conferences aren't just for networking and learning how to address a problem you're...
Managing subscribers, creating newsletters
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When I created the website on WordPress, I was expecting all the features I...
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Question of the Day
Getting the Schema for Tables
What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers