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  • RE: The Future for Database Administrators

    My boss just told me to begin looking into DynamoDB. Our new data warehouse replacement project for 2017 will migrate from onprem Oracle to AWS Redshift/DynamoDB. I am...

  • RE: Backup Strategy in Azure SQL?

    The ability to restore over top of an existing db needs to be a feature to be added. It appears you can still only restore to a new name....

  • RE: SQL Server 2016 Justification

    All of the upgrades I have done from one VM to another going from SQL2008/ SQL 2008R2 to 2012 or 2014 I have seen no performance improvement in queries running...

  • RE: SQL Server 2016 Justification

    Nadrek (8/1/2016)


    Eric M Russell (8/1/2016)


    2016 can potentially be several orders of magnitude faster than 2008, if you also want to invest in re-architecting your database to leverage things like Clustered...

  • RE: SQL Server 2016 Justification

    It 'CAN' be faster in certain situations. SQL 2014 introduced a new cardinality estimator which can cause some queries to run much faster, also some will run much slower...

  • RE: How do you know when it is time to leave a job?

    A couple of years ago when we added a headcount for a senior SQL DBA we could not find ANYONE for over 6 months. Also, we had an open...

  • RE: Talking baseball

    Chapman to the Cubs... they are certainly the club to beat now.

  • RE: How do you know when it is time to leave a job?

    My current employer is my first ever full time job out of college... started here in 1985 as a data entry person just to get my foot in the door...

  • RE: The New Data Warehouse Choice

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/19/2016)


    Markus (7/19/2016)


    I keep hearing so many folks are putting stuff in the cloud. Here they have just approved moving our Oracle data warehouse to...

  • RE: The New Data Warehouse Choice

    I keep hearing so many folks are putting stuff in the cloud. Here they have just approved moving our Oracle data warehouse to RedShift. Many other like apps...

  • RE: SQL 2012 to 2016 - Possible Application Issues

    Just like any SQL Server version upgrade there could be many and there could be none. Run the Upgrade Advisor in a test environment to see if there are...

  • RE: Change Port of a Default Instance

    By having SQL Server listen on a Non Default port it makes it makes it harder for an outsider that compromises your Network to sniff out SQL Servers in your...

  • RE: SQL Server 2016 is Just Faster

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/20/2016)


    Markus (6/20/2016)


    I attended a Microsoft event about SQL 2016 and have read a lot of information about this new release. It does appear this...

  • RE: SQL Server 2016 is Just Faster

    I attended a Microsoft event about SQL 2016 and have read a lot of information about this new release. It does appear this is the best version yet. ...

  • RE: Monitoring Log File Autogrowth.

    When you say track what do you really mean? Do you want a report daily if the ldf file grows? Or do you want something much longer term?

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