As an IT professional – whether you be a database administrator, a systems engineer, a storage administrator, a network administrator, developer, etc. – the one thing that we need to get a good grasp on in our day-to-day task is MONITORING. Whether we like it or not, monitoring is part of our daily life. I […]
A couple of years ago, when my friend SQL Server MVP and Microsoft Certified Master Amit Bansal (Twitter | Facebook) delivered a high availability training in Singapore, I asked if I could take a look at the course outline so I can justify attending. Back then, I was responsible for managing several SQL Server 2000 […]
In a previous blog post, I talked about the importance of using the CHECKSUM keyword in the BACKUP DATABASE command to make sure that you are not caught unaware of page corruption in your backups. I’ve also provided a very simple example of showing how this one keyword can influence whether or not you’ll have a good […]
As part of my preparation for last week’s Embarcadero DataU 2015 Online Conference, I tried searching for articles, blog posts and videos about useless SQL Server backups. Now, you might be asking, “why would I even be searching for that specific topic?” The primary (if not the most important) task of a database administrator (DBAs) […]
NO, that is certainly not a typo. I really did intend to say SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. Note that a previous blog post mentioned that you only have less than a year before SQL Server 2005 is out of extended support. So, why, you might ask, would I still be talking about features […]