Tag Archives: administration

Using Trace Flags

Posted on March 17, 2017 by way0utwest

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 way0utwest

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 way0utwest

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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The War Room

Posted on January 25, 2017 by way0utwest

I remember the first time I worked in a large, 10,000+ employee company, and we had a crisis with our systems. A number of us crowded into the cold computer room, gathering around a few workstations and trying to solve … Continue reading →

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