This week started off with news about the Amazon AWS DynamoDB’s outage and Skype’s network-related issues. For organizations who do not run mission-critical applications on Amazon or who use Skype for communications, this may not be a big of a deal. But for companies like NetFlix, Buffer (I use this to schedule some of my social […]
Don’t we usually hear this a lot when implementing a new high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution? The stakeholders want zero downtime and zero data loss. As IT professionals we struggle so much trying to find the right solution that would meet the requirements. We ask questions on forums, newsgroups, Facebook groups, Twitter, etc., […]
Pop quiz: You manage a production database and you need a copy of your backups to restore them on a development environment for application testing or performance tuning. You need to do this on a regular basis. Do you Take a backup of the database and restore it on your development environment? Configure replication between your […]
Have you ever wondered why your SQL Server database takes a long time to restore? How about why a failover of your Availability Groups, Failover Clustered Instances or even database mirroring configuration is taking a long time? I know I have. I’ve gone from querying the sys.dm_exec_requests DMV to check for the status and percentage of […]
If you’re a database administrator (DBA) reading this blog post, you might be thinking, “why would I find my replacement?” Instead of asking that question, why not, “how can I find an excellent assistant so I can finally take that long awaited vacation?” If you’re a manager or in a leadership position, you can refer to these […]