Compressed backups.  I spent years supporting 80+ servers that couldn't store more than two days backups under happy conditions.  Anything out of the ordinary would cause a page to the...

My team has 230 SQL boxes that we support in our environment and only 8 of them are enterprise edition.  For us, outside of BI features there isn't anything in...

A few years prior to COVID my company relocated the office from a suburban office park to a downtown Seattle high rise 25 miles away (conveniently 2 blocks from the...

Haven't done a SP Integrated to Native mode migration, but I've done many Native to Native migrations.  My experience has always been that if you are changing anything about the...

We use some 3rd party products, but will always lean towards the MS solution if there is one.  Even if not as good, any MS solution is always going to...

"I will be interested to know whether this is a very common approach of designing an architecture"

In my experience it doesn't seem that uncommon in old applications, but it really...

My ~30 year career in IT has been with a company whose products are not software.  In that kind of environment I've worked with many people without degrees who were...

My employment record is a bit of an outlier in that I have close to 30 years in IT at the same employer.  Part of that longevity can be attributed...

For home sound system receivers I typically go with Yamaha.  Excellent sound, but their interfaces are probably the most nonintuitive and cryptic you will ever find where the directions are...

As somebody who spent a good chunk of his adult life in IT supporting the paper industry, I can say that per capita  paper consumption is down dramatically from previous...

That is an application (or application client) running local on the server with SQL.  The  "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" indicates it is running as a service as Local System.  Looking through the...

I don't think a linked server to SAP HANA is an option.  At least is wasn't for us.  I forget weather it was performance issues or that SAP just wouldn't...

Been a few years since I've done a multi-restore version upgrade, but there was a couple years where it happened often enough that I had a virtual box spun up...

My employer standardizes on Dell for everything.  Aside from the "Dell Tax" the only complaints I've ever had with them are a spat of bad batteries 5-6 years ago which...

We were in on the Beta for the managed instances service as we had several groups quite excited about it.  Having just completed a lift and shift of five datacenters...