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Backup Plans for Data Loss
The British Airways computer failure has been on my mind for a few weeks. It seems like such an epic failure in 2017 from a high public company that many, many people depend on. I still struggle to believe the … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged Backup/Recovery, disaster recovery
The Need for DRE
“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
Posted in Editorial
Tagged administration, Database Weekly, disaster recovery
A Bad First Day
I’ve started quite a few jobs throughout my career. In college, I worked in a variety of restaurants, changing employers at the start of every summer and again at the start of the school year. At some of those positions, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged disaster recovery
Big Power Issues
Recently British Airways had a massive computer failure and had to cancel hundreds of flights across a couple days. This was a large disruption for travel as tens of thousands of passengers were stranded around the world. In addition to … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged disaster recovery
The Quiet Zone
I’ve been in a data center when most servers turned off. I’ve actually heard dozens of systems powered off quickly, and it’s a strange sound. You become so used to the white noise of numerous fans that having them turned … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged disaster recovery, hardware
Data Loss or Downtime
This editorial was originally published on Jan 7, 2011. It is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. I was watching Kimberly Tripp of SQL Skills talk recently about VLDB disasters and how to recover from them. One of the first things … Continue reading
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Tagged disaster recovery
Two Days Off
I almost couldn’t believe this when I saw the article. The Verizon Cloud is shutting down for 48 hours. Apparently they have maintenance scheduled for this weekend and notified their customers that their virtual machines will be shut down early Saturday … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged Cloud Computing, disaster recovery
Test Your Situation
I gave a talk on Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) recently and a number of people in the audience were using the feature. However when I asked how many of them had restored a TDE database, not all hands remained up. … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial
Tagged administration, disaster recovery, encryption, sql server
Drop and Recreate
Those of you that manage replicated environments have learned to have one thing handy: a script that recreates your replicated publishers, distributors, and subscribers. I was reminded of my past needs for those scripts recently when I saw this post on … Continue reading
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Tagged administration, disaster recovery, version controlontrol
A SQLServerCentral DR Event
We had a disaster at SQLServerCentral this past weekend. It wasn’t a big disaster, but it was an event that required a restore of data. An Administrative Error On Saturday, I was attending SQL Saturday #331 in Denver. In between … Continue reading
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