Monthly Archives: June 2017

DevOps Can Help

Posted on June 19, 2017 by way0utwest

Amazon had a load balancer failure in 2012. The analysis of the event shows that there were missing data in the devices that caused issues. The restore of data from these devices is complex, way more complex with less mature … Continue reading →

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The Need for DRE

Posted on June 17, 2017 by way0utwest

“Today’s database professionals must be engineers, not administrators” That’s a quote from an interview at O’Reilly on Database Reliability Engineering. I don’t want to quibble about whether those of us working in technology are engineers in name or not, but … Continue reading →

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Your Job Description

Posted on June 16, 2017 by way0utwest

In every job I’ve ever held, there’s been some scope creep in my duties. No matter what I think my job is, I end up handling tasks in very different areas. While bartending, I’ve had to cook food a few … Continue reading →

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Renaming MDF/LDF Files–SQLNewBlogger

Posted on June 15, 2017 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I would guess many people would run into this situation at some point. A developer or DBA creates a … Continue reading →

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