Tag Archives: administration

What’s Your Backup Speed?

I ran across a thread recently where someone was looking to estimate the time it too to perform a 600GB backup. I’ve seen other threads with similar questions. The general advice is that you need to run a backup and … Continue reading

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T-SQL Tuesday #83–The Same Old Issues

This month is an interesting T-SQL Tuesday topic, and it’s brought to us by Andy Mallon, with the topic of the same old issues we’re still dealing with. I think that’s an interesting issue, since I do find myself answering … Continue reading

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DBA Support

This editorial was originally published on Oct 28, 2012. It is being republished as Steve is out of the office. There was a time when I managed two production databases on SQL Server. Two. I had a development version of … Continue reading

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What is the Future of Monitoring?

I read Tom LaRock’s post on the future of monitoring, looking at the rise of machine learning and complex algorithms to evaluate systems. Tom notes that the data input into a system is crucial in determining whether the system can … Continue reading

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