Tag Archives: administration

The Need for DRE

Posted on June 17, 2017 by

“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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Renaming MDF/LDF Files–SQLNewBlogger

Posted on June 15, 2017 by

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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Why Does My Log Grow–SQLNewBlogger

Posted on June 8, 2017 by

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is a great topic, and really, every DBA or admin should blog this and be sure they understand … Continue reading →

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SQL Server is Getting Smarter

Posted on June 8, 2017 by

There’s been a lot of press and media about Microsoft on the AI and machine learning work they’re heavily investing in. From Cognitive Services to Cortana to Bots, Microsoft is really investing in developers and applications that will perform detailed … Continue reading →

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Restore to a point in time–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on May 25, 2017 by

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is also a part of a basic series on git and how to use it. One of the … Continue reading →

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Using DBCC Clonedatabase

Posted on May 10, 2017 by

I haven’t messed with the new DBCC CloneDatabase option in SQL Server 2014/12016 (depending on patches), but recently I saw this: On a quiet Friday afternoon, this seemed like a good time to experiment. We (Redgate Software) have a salesdemo … Continue reading →

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Balloons and Data

Posted on May 9, 2017 by

This editorial was originally published on Aug 8. 2013. It is being re-run as Steve is out of the office. We see a lot of questions at SQLServerCentral repeated over the years as workers new to the platform encounter some … Continue reading →

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Using Trace Flags

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

At SQLServerCentral, we recently published a list of all the trace flags from Konstantin Taranov. It’s a great list, and thanks to Konstantin for compiling it. While I haven’t often used trace flags, there are some that have really helped … Continue reading →

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Global v Session Trace Flags

Posted on March 16, 2017 by

I wrote a short article on enabling and disabling trace flags. You can read it, but I didn’t really discuss the implications of session v global trace flags, which is something I’d like to do here. In the article, I … Continue reading →

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Backups Aren’t Backups Until a Restore Is Made

Posted on February 8, 2017 by

One of the interesting things I saw in the recent GitLab outage and data loss was the fact that none of their backups were available. They use PostgreSQL and I’m not familiar with the ways in which the modern PostgreSQL … Continue reading →

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