Monthly Archives: April 2016

Stress Testing

Posted on April 29, 2016 by way0utwest

Many of the DBAs that manage production systems will at some point determine what level of hardware is needed to support a workload. Whether this is a physical server purchase or a cloud “rental”, someone has to decide what hardware … Continue reading →

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Am I a sysadmin?–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on April 28, 2016 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I was doing some security testing and wondered if I was a sysadmin. There are a few ways to … Continue reading →

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Losing All Traces of Data

Posted on April 28, 2016 by way0utwest

I was reading a thriller recently, in which a businessperson had their child threatened if they didn’t get some data for the criminals. Once the person had retrieved the data, they were told to delete it from the system and … Continue reading →

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Cloud First

Posted on April 27, 2016 by way0utwest

SQL Server 2016 is the first “cloud first” release of SQL Server, as told to us by Remus Rusanu, former Microsoft SQL Server development team member. The features and enhancements in SQL Server 2016 have been running in the Azure … Continue reading →

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