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In a previous post, I described how you can use Azure storage to store SQL Server database backup files. This flexible option offers the ability to get your critical backups off site and in certain regions, they could be configured to be automatically redundant to a secondary region. Having backups […]
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about boot diagnostics and how they can help you troubleshoot issues when virtual machines won’t start. But what if you selected to disabled boot diagnostics when the virtual machine was created? Can you go back and retro-actively add them back? Yes, Virginia, yes […]
Several weeks ago, while on a flight traveling home from San Francisco, I received an exciting email. I had submitted to speak at SQL Bits and during my flight I was notified that one of my submitted sessions had been selected. This means that I’ll be traveling to Manchester, England […]
If you have ever rebooted a virtual machine and feel like you are in the dark to it’s current state, you aren’t alone. Thankfully, Azure provides a number of tools to aid in your experience in the cloud when it comes to “reboot darkness”. Boot diagnostics allows you to see […]
In today’s world, more often then not you might run into systems that have large beefy hardware. Hundreds of gigabytes of memory, ultra fast solid state disks and many CPUs to push your workloads. These types of systems are no longer unicorns in the wild but are becoming more and […]
In today’s world of database administrations, there are a plethora of tools and resources that can be available to utilize to help solve problems, such as performance tuning, configuration, and many others. Some are third party tools, some are free, and some are provided by the vendor themselves. Regardless of […]
Sometimes you know that a problem occurred, but the tools are not giving you the right information. If you ever look at the Cluster Failover Manager for a Windows Cluster, sometimes that can happen. The user interface won’t show you any errors, but you KNOW there was an issue. This […]
In a previous post, I talked about some of the available storage options that can be used to back up your databases directly to the cloud. Doing this is a really good way to get your backups off-site and replicated in a single motion, depending on the region and redundancy […]