“Only wimps use tape backup: REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it” – Linus Torvalds – I really don’t have a clue whether that quote was intended as a joke or not but that’s beside the point. If you’ve worked in the IT industry for a […]
Failing to plan is planning to fail Designing and deploying high availability solutions takes a lot of preparation and planning. Whenever I do presentations that involve demos of creating SQL Server failover clustered instances (FCIs) and Availability Groups (AGs,) I emphasize that while the demo only takes less than 20 minutes to complete, it takes […]
One of the cool features introduced in SQL Server 2014 was the ability to perform an online index rebuild of a single partition. Prior to SQL Server 2014, the only way to rebuild indexes for a partitioned table was to do it on all of the partitions (or, simply put, rebuild the entire index on […]
Back in 2009, a friend of mine asked why we decided to move to Canada despite the 2008 financial crisis that hit North America. To which I replied, “There really is no such thing as a job security. That in itself is a myth.“ Now, I don’t want to sound negative here but […]
But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything. – Alan Watts – WARNING: There will be a ton of acronyms in this blog post. Make sure to keep your notebook handy for note-taking reference. […]