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Controlling Alerts

Posted on May 20, 2015 by way0utwest

None of us likes to be on call for our organizations. Late night phone calls, especially for something silly like adding a new user to a system or rebooting a machine, can make for irritable employees in the morning. Too … Continue reading →

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PostgreSQL v SQL Server

Posted on May 19, 2015 by way0utwest

A site that’s a comparison of the platforms. http://www.pg-versus-ms.com/ Certainly some good arguments being made, but (admittedly) biased towards specific workload items that the author uses. However, I agree with lots of the items listed. There are quite a few … Continue reading →

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The Service Pack Fiasco

Posted on May 11, 2015 by way0utwest

I remember getting a Service Pack years ago that caused a blue screen of death on Windows 2000 servers when it was installed. In fact, a quick search shows that quite a few operating systems (and SQL Server 2005) have had issues … Continue reading →

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vNext 2016

Posted on May 7, 2015 by way0utwest

We have a name for the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2016. I suspect the internal build may be v14, which I guess makes sense if you’re superstitious about the number 13, or you think your customers are. There are plenty … Continue reading →

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