Monthly Archives: May 2015

Naming Confusion

Posted on May 21, 2015 by way0utwest

When I first worked in a corporation that had many servers, I had to learn the encoding of our systems. We had SUIS01, SUIS02, NAIS01, NAOP01, etc. Each name designated a location and department, but no information as to what … Continue reading →

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Controlling Alerts

Posted on May 20, 2015 by way0utwest

None of us likes to be on call for our organizations. Late night phone calls, especially for something silly like adding a new user to a system or rebooting a machine, can make for irritable employees in the morning. Too … Continue reading →

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Refactoring Mistakes Are Why We Write Tests

Posted on May 20, 2015 by way0utwest

I wrote a short piece the other day trying to show how one can use tSQLt to test code. It’s a simple test built against a user defined function. It works well and when the test is run, it passes. … Continue reading →

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VMs are not VMs

Posted on May 19, 2015 by way0utwest

I was at VMWare recently. One of the main things that all of the SQL Server professionals that were there tried to emphasize is that SQL Server workloads are not like other workloads. The impact on the various host resources, … Continue reading →

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