Tag Archives: Database Weekly

Do you use DAX?

Posted on June 23, 2018 by

It’s not that often that I see many posts about DAX. Despite the Data Analysis Expressions being used in Power BI, it seems that relatively few people call this out in their work. Chris Webb writes about it often, and this … Continue reading →

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Are you GDPR Ready?

Posted on May 26, 2018 by

The GDPR is being enforced as of yesterday. It’s been a law for two years, but fines are now going to be assessed for violations. If you’re like me, you’ve been getting a lot of different types of privacy policy … Continue reading →

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Taking Shortcuts

Posted on April 28, 2018 by

Many of us work in situations where we feel pressure to get work done at a pace that’s faster than we might like to move. In some sense, this is the nature of life, where customers and clients always want … Continue reading →

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Opportunity or Restriction?

Posted on March 3, 2018 by

I’ve been at the Redgate office all week, broadcasting SQL in the City and meeting with product teams. Quite a bit of our focus is on the GDPR law, with enforcement beginning in May. We’re building and enhancing tools to … Continue reading →

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We Do Need To Upgrade

Posted on February 3, 2018 by

I advocate that we should get a long life from our database platforms. In fact, I like to think about a 7-10 year lifetime for many of my database instances. That means I’ll get beyond the 5 year lifetime that … Continue reading →

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Sizing New Servers

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

I ran across a post this week from Joe Chang on server sizing. It’s short and talks about some of the issues that you might consider when looking at a single socket v multi-socket systems. What first caught my eye, however, … Continue reading →

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Spread the Word about Basic Security

Posted on July 22, 2017 by

I went with my daughter the other day to set up her bank account. She’s becoming a young adult and this is one of those items we need to get done, especially in today’s world of electronic banking and money … Continue reading →

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Backup Preparations

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

I’m sure that many data professionals recognize the importance of having backups in the event of some issue. Many of you will schedule these as soon as you create a database, and then not think much of the process, ignoring … Continue reading →

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The Need for DRE

Posted on June 17, 2017 by

“Today’s database professionals must be engineers, not administrators” That’s a quote from an interview at O’Reilly on Database Reliability Engineering. I don’t want to quibble about whether those of us working in technology are engineers in name or not, but … Continue reading →

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Security and Patching Struggles

Posted on May 20, 2017 by

A couple weeks ago we had a huge security issue with the WannaCry ransomware racing across the world. I was out of the office, and mostly offline, so I was a bit out of touch. However, many organizations were affected, … Continue reading →

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