Tag Archives: administration

Stress Testing

Posted on April 29, 2016 by way0utwest

Many of the DBAs that manage production systems will at some point determine what level of hardware is needed to support a workload. Whether this is a physical server purchase or a cloud “rental”, someone has to decide what hardware … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged , | Comments Off on Stress Testing

What’s Your Downtime?

Posted on April 15, 2016 by way0utwest

That’s the question this week: What’s your downtime? I thought about this as I read this piece on Azure’s downtime being greater than its rivals in 2014. You do need to provide an email to read the article, but essentially … Continue reading →

Posted in Editorial | Tagged | Comments Off on What’s Your Downtime?

Restoring a Striped Backup–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on March 7, 2016 by way0utwest

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. Recently I uncompressed some SQL Backup Pro files. Since multiple threads were used to make the backup, I ended … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Creating a Database Snapshot

Posted on January 25, 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’ve rarely dealt with database snapshots, outside of lab experimentation. They didn’t exist when I did most of my … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment