A look at the sessions I’ll be presenting at SQL Bits 2022 in London this year. Excited to return to a great conference and hope to see you there!
Moving VMWare Virtual Machines to Synology
One of the reasons that I enjoy having a Synology DS920+ around is that that I can use it to experiment with virtualization. In this experiment, I’m going to move a virtual machine that I configured through VMWare’s Fusion which is running on my Mac laptop. This is just a […]
For #JohnsDad
Last week, on Wednesday August 11, 2021 at approximately 3:45PM Eastern, my Father left this world. Much too early. Covid took my Father from me, my family, and his grandchildren. He had some underlying issues, but Covid is what pushed him over the edge. Covid put him on a ventilator […]
Is 18TB of Storage Enough?
Come to find out, nope, probably not. My good friend Jim Donahoe (blog|twitter)was very nice to tell me that he’s running 100TB of storage in his house across multiple Synology devices. I also know for a fact that another good friend, David Klee (blog|twitter), utilizes enough storage in his house to […]
Quickly Determining Azure SQL Database Size
Recently I needed to determine how much storage space each database on a logical server was consuming. I was doing some DR testing and I need to give the client a rough estimate on how much each database was going to cost. You can do this through the Azure portal […]