Tag Archives: Database Weekly

Local Database Issues

Posted on November 12, 2016 by way0utwest

There was a report that Spotify is writing lots of junk data to users’ local drives. Some people have noted GB a day or writes, even when they aren’t using Spotify for listening to music. Some debugging by users show … Continue reading →

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Intelligence from Data

Posted on October 1, 2016 by way0utwest

There is an incredible amount of data in the world, and all that data is changing the way industries work. That’s the opening to a keynote talk from Jim McHugh at the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference. The talk is short, … Continue reading →

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Analyzing Data in Real Time

Posted on September 21, 2016 by way0utwest

A few years ago I was listening to a presentation from Microsoft where they touted a customer that had real time analytics with Analysis Services. Since my exposure had been that cubes needed to be processed, a resource intensive process, … Continue reading →

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Why We Need Backups First

Posted on September 17, 2016 by way0utwest

One of the things I show when I talk about TDE is that the backup of the certificate is very important. When you create a certificate, SQL Server warns you right away that a backup of the certificate is needed. … Continue reading →

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