Tag Archives: Friday Poll

Physical or Virtual Storage

Posted on October 27, 2017 by way0utwest

When I started working with SQL Server, every server had what we’d call das-dee, or DASD (Direct Attached Storage Devices). These were hard drives inside the same physical case as the rest of the Windows computer. I’ve added lots of … Continue reading →

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The Control Poll

Posted on September 8, 2017 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on May 17, 2013. It is being re-run as Steve is out of the office. I was reading about version control systems (VCS) recently, brushing up on some skills, and saw this quote in a thread: “There … Continue reading →

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Staging Deployments

Posted on April 7, 2017 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Nov 30, 2011. It is being republished as Steve is out of the office. Software development can be a complicated dance. Most of us do not work for a software vendor and don’t have … Continue reading →

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The One Metric to Rule Them All

Posted on December 9, 2016 by way0utwest

When we want to know if our databases are running well, most of us look at metrics for our servers. Usually some combination of CPU, RAM, Disk IO are chosen, though network, user connections, batches and transactions can be a … Continue reading →

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