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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Disaster Recovery (DR)
2022-07-08
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Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever
A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.
2022-04-22
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Backup Architecture
Continuous backup in Cosmos DB doesn't quite work as Steve would expect. He has a few comments on why it is important you know how your backup and restore system works.
2022-02-21
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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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How Paranoid Are You About Backups?
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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Incident Response Data
Being prepared for a disaster might mean having a way to collect data when something occurs.
2021-05-12
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Impact Minutes
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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Recovering Databases From a Master Backup
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
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Blogs
A New Word: Dorgone
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Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers
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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident
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Hyperscale Replicas II
How many Azure SQL DB Hyperscale HA replicas can be configured as of Sept 2026?
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