Preserving Data

Today Steve has a few comments on backups and your ability to get to a restore in the event of an issue with your provider.

All the Costs of Downtime

Downtime causes a lot of problems, not all of which are financial for an organization.

Responding to a Disaster

A few recent disasters inspire Steve to remind you to prepare now, before a disaster occurs.

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.

SQL Server Standard Always On Availability Groups

Always On Setup

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.

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.

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.

Three Mile Island And Your Databases

Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.