Tag Archives: administration

Monitoring and Alerting

Posted on June 30, 2016 by way0utwest

Monitoring your systems is important. It’s not just me that thinks so, as plenty of experienced DBAs and developers know the value of monitoring. Heck, most people have learned to build some sort of metric collection into their software. Azure … Continue reading →

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Updates During Outages

Posted on June 20, 2016 by way0utwest

Slack went down on June 10, 2016. I noticed, which is funny, since I don’t necessarily use the tool every day. I tend to still communicate with email, but more and more people like using Slack at Redgate, so I … Continue reading →

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When were statistics updated?–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on June 16, 2016 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across the STATS_DATE function recently, and it’s one that I hadn’t used in production code. I’m not … Continue reading →

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What’s Your Test Plan?

Posted on May 20, 2016 by way0utwest

I ran across a post on upgrading a SQL Server instance, where the original poster (OP) was asking about a document to upgrade from SQL Server 2008 to 2014. That’s a big ask, especially as not many documents tend to … Continue reading →

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