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
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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