Monthly Archives: January 2014

Powershell in a Month Day 13 – Remote Control

Posted on January 27, 2014 by way0utwest

This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in a Month of Lunches book by Don Jones. Remoting. It sounds complex, and intimidating. It isn’t, and it’s powerful. It’s also essential, allowing … Continue reading →

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Management at Scale

Posted on January 27, 2014 by way0utwest

Would you like to manage 20,000 databases by yourself? What about 20,000 instances? It’s not quite the same thing, but Facebook recently announced that each of their data center operations staff manages 20,000 servers. That’s an impressive number, and it comes about … Continue reading →

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Common Checks

Posted on January 24, 2014 by way0utwest

One of the things that I recommend to DBAs is that as they write code to solve problems, they write some sort of check to catch future potential occurrences of the issue. For example, I worked with a product years … Continue reading →

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Too Much Choice

Posted on January 23, 2014 by way0utwest

As this piece shows, more information can be bad. As drivers get more choices, options, and opportunities to interact with information, they may not be driving as well as they otherwise might. Restaurants and retailers have seen something similar. Too much information … Continue reading →

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