Penny Garbus, President Soaring Eagle A good project leader knows the software that they need to use for managing project TEAMS, including MICROSOFT PROJECTS, AZURE DEV OPS, Trello, Slack to name a few tools. However, a FABULOUS Project Leader COMMUNICATES upward and outward. Everyone in the chain that has a stake hold in the project […]
Things you are doing wrong in SQL Server (and how to do them right). With our CEO, Jeff Garbus.
By Rohit Khadka, Sr. Database Administrator Many of us – Production DBAs, at some of our career have had to work with PowerShell to perform operations outside of SQL Server. Sometimes, this task can be a bit intimidating considering that it wasn’t really part of the job description (let’s just admit that we didn’t read […]
By Valentin Iamandi, Principal DBA The conversion myth “The conversion is slow because there is a lot of data” – a SQL developer Context Some of the big conversion SQL Server databases projects are supposed to not only convert very large data sets (billions of rows and multiple terabytes of data) but also to expand […]
The Iowa Caucus Application Malfunction Bad things Happen To Good People and Companies If you have participated in a software deployment, then you know how nail biting the production roll out can be. You have tested for everything you could think of. You have people on standby to ensure that the application works as expected […]
Recently I was called into a shop that had a 4 terabyte database, who claimed they didn’t have anywhere near that much data. Upon investigation, they were correct. They had about 100 gig of data, and about 3.9 T of indexes. Is this too much? Well, in order to make that kind of judgement call […]
Continuity in the IT world means that if we lose a teammate (hopefully only temporarily) that work and life in our environment can still go on. The most important thing to do is to automate everything that you can. Alerts, backups, index investigation, data integrity checks and other maintenance processes must be automated. Make sure […]
For many businesses, it is hard to determine whether online or on-premises storage is the right choice. There are many considerations to take into account, including their benefits and challenges. Let’s analyze both options to help companies decide on the correct option. What is Cloud Software? Cloud solutions allow companies to manage, store and access […]