Category Archives: Editorial

How Do You Patch 100 Database Servers?

Posted on November 18, 2024 by way0utwest

In most of the organizations I’ve worked for or consulted with, patching was always a challenge. Patching hasn’t usually been given a priority and is often skipped when operations staff is busy. This has resulted in lots of un-patched, or … Continue reading →

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Do You Want a Microsoft Solution?

Posted on November 15, 2024 by way0utwest

Microsoft constantly releases new features and products in the data platform space. Many of us have seen the SQL Server product grow in new ways, some of which are very useful to us. As an example the changes from log … Continue reading →

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Separate Reads

Posted on November 13, 2024 by way0utwest

Recently I was watching a presentation on how to scale performance in your SQL Server environment and one of the suggestions was setting up Availability Groups (AGs) and having read-intent connections that would query the secondary and not the primary. … Continue reading →

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Time to Change Your Team

Posted on November 11, 2024 by way0utwest

I assume most of you work with others in a team. Even if you are the data specialist and others work on different technologies, you still have a team. How long has your current team been together in this form? … Continue reading →

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