Tag Archives: administration

What’s Your Smoke Test?

Posted on August 19, 2016 by way0utwest

Many DBAs and operational staff regularly stress over software deployments to production systems. Even when the administrator has built and tested the deployment scripts, there is still a nagging fear that something will be missed, incurring downtime for systems. I … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tuesday #81–Sharpening Skills

Posted on August 9, 2016 by way0utwest

This is an interesting month for T-SQL Tuesday. The challenge is from Jason Brimhall to Sharpen Something, and learn something new. However, his challenge isn’t just a simple “learn something.” Instead, he writes: “This month I am asking you to … Continue reading →

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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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