Tag Archives: administration

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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Easy Database Space with dbatools

Posted on January 6, 2017 by way0utwest

One of the things that I’ve seen DBAs query for is free space in a database. In fact, this is one of the most common questions posted on SQLServerCentral by newbies that are trying to manage their instances and ensure … Continue reading →

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Provisioning

Posted on December 23, 2016 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on May 24, 2013. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. At a talk recently, the presenter talked about the time lag for an on-premises server to be installed and configured to be … Continue reading →

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