Tag Archives: administration

The Need for Tape

Posted on October 1, 2013 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Mar 26, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is away at DevConnections. One of our SQLServerCentral authors sent me this post, which I found to be pretty amazing. Apparently hackers broke into a backup server at … Continue reading →

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Scripting

Posted on September 26, 2013 by way0utwest

One of the directions in which Red Gate Software is to build more tools and utilities that all of you can use for working in cloud environments. We aren’t ignoring the desktop tools like SQL Compare and Prompt (v6, yeah!) that you’ve come to appreciate and depend … Continue reading →

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The Human Cost of Managing Data

Posted on September 24, 2013 by way0utwest

If you’ve ever worked in a large environment, where the numbers of nodes number in the thousands, or tens of thousands, then you know many software packages don’t scale to that size very well. I’ve seen quite a few pieces … Continue reading →

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The Dangers of Detach

Posted on September 18, 2013 by way0utwest

I ran across a twitter conversation about a post recently. The post talks about detaching or attaching databases in bulk. I agree that detaching databases in some cases is bad, but it’s not necessarily something I’d avoid. Detach is a … Continue reading →

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