I have some fond memories of getting out the screwdriver to deal with the big pile of boxes from Compaq.  Was never officially my job, but the server build guys...

"My employer created an "Innovation Hub" on our Intranet where people could submit ideas, a committee would rank them for value and feasibility, and a small dedicated team would implement...

I can't think of a way to do it natively that would be robust enough that I would trust it for a production application.  Something like hand coded triggers on...

My company did a wholesale move to the cloud in 2015-2018.  We closed down all five North American data centers and did a lift and shift of everything that was...

Building on what Jeffrey says...  You can have the new alias set up in AD prior to the migration pointed at the existing cluster.  That gives you time to migrate...

For better or worse I have a large collection of old tech in my home office.  I've got at least four iPods, three Zunes, half a dozen no-name MP3 players,...

After the vendor stated there is no support for running that version of their application on a version of SQL later than SQL2012, the application support team set up a...

I spent much of the first half of this year doing upgrades to get off SQL2012.  Was mostly successful by the deadline, the exception being about 25 servers which were...

Our line has always been the loss of extended support.   We've got enough prepaid support hours built into our enterprise agreement to cover the once every three years or so...

In SSMS I dream of having the MSX / Multi Server Administration "Manage Target Servers" window to be resizable, like just about every other window in SSMS.  It has been...

A timely article.  I woke up this morning to discover my home office router had locked up overnight.  Turning it off and then on again restored functionality (seems I have...

We've got a series of questions we go through whenever we are interviewing a new potential DBA (hasn't happened in awhile).   There are a few "how would you do this"...

Any service running on the local server as "Local System" trying to access databases will show up as "NT Authority/System" in the SQL logs.

In my experience the cause is usually...

Over the 2016-2019 time period my company shut down five corporate datacenters and moved almost all of it to Azure or AWS via lift and shift IaaS methods.   For scale,...

When I was hired in the mid 90's I worked with a large number of IT employees with 20+ years of service.  One guy on my team had been in...