Incident Review
After an outage, how do you respond to the issue in the future? A good review of the incident should be a learning opportunity.
2021-09-29
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After an outage, how do you respond to the issue in the future? A good review of the incident should be a learning opportunity.
2021-09-29
134 reads
Sometimes just running a backup isn't enough, especially in this era of ransomware. Steve has a few thoughts on backup strategies and recovery skills.
2021-08-09
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Being prepared for a disaster might mean having a way to collect data when something occurs.
2021-05-12
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When downtime strikes, we may have to make decisions about which systems to focus our efforts upon. Steve talks about the impact of a disaster on your choices.
2021-01-28
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Losing your instance might result in the need to get information from what you have. Steve Jones looks at a way to get the proper version and patch, and database list, from what limited resources you might have.
2020-10-27
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2020-10-22
8,562 reads
It's not the first task when I start a new job, but often as a DBA or developer, I usually ask about Disaster Recovery (DR) plans sometime within the first six months. If I'm a DBA, of course I need a plan. If I'm a developer, however, I still need to understand how this might […]
2020-10-01
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Estate management keeps getting more complex, especially with the move to the cloud, or to multiple clouds. Today Steve talks about the need to ensure you know what the settings are in your environments.
2020-09-28
86 reads
Being prepared for things to go wrong is important, more so these days than in much of our past.
2020-09-04
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In this tip we look at how to restore a missing or corrupt SQL Server model database.
2019-12-23
By Brian Kelley
The bottom line here is this: the idea that a CSP takes care of...
In today's data-driven world, SQL (Structured Query Language) is a blazing-hot skill. It's your...
By Steve Jones
I leave tonight for Australia. I was in London 3 days ago, so this...
I have been asked to fine-tune the following SQL that was written by a...
In this scenario, I seek assistance in implementing row-level permissions for a table named...
I've tried different credentials, target server versions, etc. hitting our Primavera WSDL. Works great...
What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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