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I have a client that resides in the Azure data platform arena, focusing mainly on Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Azure SQL DB. They have a decent landscape of Azure resources and currently utilize failover groups within SQL DB to facilitate high availability. Under the covers, failover groups are […]
Anytime that you a large environment, gathering metrics in any form can be daunting and cumbersome. Using scripting languages can usually greatly improve the efficiency of this process as well as be more accurate. Whether it’s VMWare, SQL Server, or some other platform, it would behoove you to see what […]
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 […]
As data professionals, we should always strive to keep our systems updated and patched to ensure proper security of our environments. Microsoft has moved away from releasing service packs to releasing just cumulative updates and the occasional hotfixes. These hotfixes may or may not be security related, but it behooves […]
If you are like me, you use the SSMS GUI for various things. Though, I tend to use scripts for the management of most things, I do check on the database growth rates of files using the GUI interface. While I was recently, doing a review of a client’s environment […]